tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192015412011-12-13T22:54:47.284-05:00Cataloguing, detailing and discussing the transportation issues facing Northern Virginia and the rest of the CommonwealthOmarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868665882657626871noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19201541.post-1137930407200858172006-01-22T06:39:00.000-05:002006-01-22T06:46:47.226-05:00

For those of you tracking the status of the I-395/95 HOV corridor as the Metropolitan Washington region looks ahead toward implementing HOT lanes, two pieces of legislation currently before a subcommittee in the Virginia General Assembly might interest you:HB-494Prohibits imposition of tolls on HOV facilities. This would ensure that any HOT lane proposal would allow HOV vehicles to pass without

Omarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868665882657626871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19201541.post-1135746560773643352005-12-27T23:56:00.000-05:002005-12-28T00:09:20.786-05:00

When it comes to funding, Metrobus has been left behind. The front-page article of today's Washington Post, according to Wonkette, "uncovers a motherload of obviousness" – probably referring to the article's focus on the fact that bus riders are more likely to be minority and low-income than subway riders.The basic premise of the article is that, in the shadow of the more well-known Metrorail

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Could your morning habit be contributing to our region's traffic woes? This April 2005 Washington Post article explores the issue. (April 2005 seems to be a big month for transportation reports based on the Washington Post Web site; articles from this month will be a subject of discussion on this blog for a while, it seems.)The problem is that traffic forecasters assume that people use the

Omarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07868665882657626871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19201541.post-1133371881319834642005-11-30T10:26:00.000-05:002005-12-11T23:29:59.483-05:00

Some interesting solutions were offered at Governor-Elect Kaine's transportation town hall in Manassas on Tuesday, among which were extending Metro's Orange Line to Gainesville and building Japanese-style double-decker highways. Extending the Orange Line beyond its current Vienna/Fairfax terminus makes sense because of the traffic that plagues the I-66 corridor, but adding a second level of

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If you're carpooling to work, you should be rewarded. Register your carpool, and earn great benefits from retailers in the Washington, D.C., area using a system that works something like frequent flyer miles. How does it work? As the program overview will tell you, there is no catch. Companies are eager to provide their marketing to carpoolers in their targeted zip codes, so they pay NuRide

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For all that people may complain of traffic, there's at least one way of getting around that means bypassing it altogether: rail. While most people negotiated traffic this Thanksgiving weekend, I took a train from Richmond's Main Street Station to visit the folks up in Northern Virginia. The ride was pretty smooth, and I arrived at my destination in about the same time it would have taken to

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One of the major solutions being touted for the Washington metropolitan area is the construction of High-Occupancy/Toll lanes to replace the existing system of single-use High-Occupancy lanes around the region. Instead of restricting these lanes to carpools and buses, people would be able to pay a fee, which gets higher during rush hour and other times of congestion, to bypass the lanes' HOV

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This Associated Press article featured on the WTOP Radio Web site describes the problem facing Northern Virginia transit: skyrocketing demand, and zero funds to compensate. Both Metro rail and local bus systems have seen marked increases in ridership -- a total of 3.3 million trips more than than last year's total of 125 million. The only transit service not to see an increase was the Virginia

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Among the proposals that have been put forward for solving Virginia's transportation funding problem has been privatizing our road system. For some arteries like the Dulles Toll Road, which is already connected to the privately owned Dulles Greenway, this makes a certain amount of sense. For others, like the existing HOV lanes on Interstate 395 between Woodbridge and the 14th Street Bridge, it

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Welcome to Forward Virginia, the first blog (at least as far as I know) cataloguing, detailing and discussing transportation issues in Northern Virginia and around the commonwealth. Tim Kaine was recently elected to succeed Mark Warner as governor, and his campaign slogan, "Moving Virginia Forward," is the inspiration for the title of this blog. It is also the aim of smart transportation policy

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