More than 600,000 people in the Washington region telework “at least occasionally” and another 500,000 say they “could and would” work remotely if given the opportunity, according to the results .. Keep Reading

More express and local transit buses that operate on the region’s highways could eventually, in select locations and under certain traffic conditions, be allowed to use shoulders to bypass especially .. Keep Reading

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing the role of updated Activity Centers in metro Washington. Now we’re going to take a look at some specific Centers, starting .. Keep Reading

Guest post by Tom Fairchild, the Director of Mobility Lab, which is working with COG and other partners to make the updated Activity Centers a tool for managing growth .. Keep Reading

Three years and eleven short-term extensions after the previous funding act expired, Congress in June passed a new law authorizing the expenditure of federal funds for transportation through September 2014… Keep Reading

Last week Sophie Mintier, a Housing Planner at MWCOG, provided an overview of the Activity Centers 2012 Update and asked readers to submit ideas for how these Centers can best .. Keep Reading

Sophie Mintier, Housing Planner at MWCOG working on the update of the Region Activity Centers Map

This is part one of a multi-part series on the new Activity Centers for .. Keep Reading

Seeing as it’s summer and you’ve hopefully been enjoying some well-earned vacation, we thought we’d share some of our favorite posts featured on The Yardstick over the past couple months .. Keep Reading

As it adopted updates to the region’s 30-year transportation plan during its most recent meeting on July 18, the Transportation Planning Board at the same time made official new regional .. Keep Reading

Traffic congestion knows no jurisdictional boundaries – that’s a fact repeated often by local and regional leaders in metro Washington.

One of the most obvious examples of this comes in .. Keep Reading

Travel delays on freeways in the Washington region dropped by 18% between June and July of last year thanks in largest part to changes in daily travel patterns that accompany .. Keep Reading

Between 1987 and 2007 metro Washington’s agricultural land declined by 23%, according to the recently released Region Forward Baseline Progress Report.

Currently, the entire region has less agricultural land .. Keep Reading

Imagine the consequences of unexpectedly getting your bicycle wheel stuck in a new streetcar track. Or try to picture just how much water runs off into nearby streams after a .. Keep Reading

Metro Washington could grow more efficiently and reduce its notorious traffic congestion by making better use of existing capacity in underutilized parts of the region instead of continuing costly, unsustainable .. Keep Reading

Despite forecasts of slower-than-expected growth in population, employment, and driving in the Washington region through 2020 because of the economic downturn of the last few years, vehicle-related emissions of harmful .. Keep Reading