Transportation planners are inviting Arlingtonians to look three decades into the region’s future at a meeting tomorrow night.
The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board is hosting a public forum focusing on its “Visualize 2045” initiative at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday (May 2) at the Arlington Central Library.
The organization — which includes representatives of 22 local governments around the D.C. region and a variety of other federal, state and local transportation officials — is convening a series of town halls on its long-range plans for the area over the coming weeks.
The group wants feedback on seven broad goals for the region:
- Bring jobs and housing closing together
- Expand bus rapid transit regionwide
- Move more people on Metrorail
- Provide more telecommuting and other options for commuting
- Expand express highway network
- Improve walk and bike access to transit
- Complete the “National Capital Trail“
While officials are already working on some of these goals, others are deemed more aspirational and need funding to become a reality. But Transportation Planning Board officials hope to get public feedback on all of them to shape the development of policies to support these benchmarks.
Anyone who can’t make it to the meeting but still wants to submit comments on the plan can do so on the group’s website through May 31.
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