All Posts in ‘Commonwealth Transportation Board’
The CTB and VDOT Want to Know — How Smartly Is Smart Scale Choosing?
The CTB and VDOT Want to Know — How Smartly Is Smart Scale Choosing? The Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) and Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) are holding the following public hearing […]
Funding the Right Transportation Projects in Virginia?
Funding the Right Transportation Projects in Virginia? Smart Scale Project Scores Released The Smart Scale results are in. Of 404 projects submitted with a total price tag of $8.5 billion, […]
Did They Get it Right? VDOT Releases Project Scores and Rankings
Last week, VDOT released the results of the first round of projects ranked through the new Virginia HB2 process that is intended to take the politics out of transportation project […]
Coalition of Business Organizations Endorses Short List of Key Transportation Priorities
The Northern Virginia Transportation Coalition has announced the adoption of a resolution signed by twenty major business and industry organizations that urges regional transportation investments be based on five criteria […]
Have politics really been taken out of transportation? CTB Adopts HB2 Guidelines
At their June meeting, the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) approved the State’s new transportation prioritization program, known as HB 2. Despite the General Assembly directive that congestion reduction should be […]
It’s the Weight that Matters Most
As originally drafted, the intent of legislation (HB 2) creating Virginia’s the new transportation prioritization program was to focus more state resources on reducing Northern Virginia’s traffic congestion. However, as […]
Last Call on Transportation Dollars
Under Virginia’s transportation funding allocation structure, funds for highway construction are those that exist after all other obligations are met (debt service, maintenance, rail & public transportation, administration, transfers other […]
Maintenance Drain Remains
State law says that transportation maintenance needs must be funded first. And from 1986 when the Highway Maintenance and Operations Fund (HMOF) was created until 2002, the HMOF contained enough […]
HB 2: Keep It Simple
In October 16th testimony, the Alliance urged the Commonwealth Transportation Board and Virginia Department of Transportation to focus predominantly on congestion reduction and economic development when rating projects in the […]