During a meeting at the Transportation Planning Board today, leaders from DC, Maryland, and Virginia voted to exclude the controversial Southside Express Lanes project from the regional plan Visualize 2050.

The draft Visualize 2050 plan, our region's long-range transportation plan, has too many highway and arterial road expansions that will increase driving and climate emissions. We will miss our region’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 – even if there’s a rapid switch to electric vehicles.

Advocates spanning the generations celebrate our win at the Council Office Building on Tuesday, July 29!   On Tuesday, the County Council voted 10-1 to remove the unbuilt portion of Mid-County Highway Extended (M-83) from county plans.  This was a victory decades in the making!  Left on the books since the 1960s but

July 29, 2025 | Ginny Bixby | Bethesda Magazine An advocacy group that lobbied against the highway plan praised the council’s decision Tuesday in a press release. “Plans for M-83 were based on obsolete planning assumptions that are out of sync with what we know today about effectively meeting transportation

The Montgomery County Council voted today to remove the unbuilt northern portion of M-83 from the Master Plan of Highways and Transitways, a move strongly supported by the Coalition for Smarter Growth and local leaders in the TAME Coalition.