Danny Plaugher is executive director of Virginians for High Speed Rail. He serves on the board of RVA Rapid Transit, the Capital Region Collaborative’s Transportation Working Group and the Virginia Conservation Network’s Land Use and Transportation Committee. He can be emailed at [email protected]
One of the more important data sets to have been released recently are the new 2030 and 2040 population projections from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center’s Demographics Research Group. The Weldon Cooper Center is the commonwealth’s official demographer and their projections impact a whole host of state and local issues from school funding […]
With the recent announcement that Amazon is bringing 25,000-plus high-paying jobs to Crystal City in Northern Virginia, I believe now is the perfect opportunity to move the commonwealth’s transportation system into the 21st century. Now is a great time to move away from the “more roads” transportation plan to an “all-of-the-above” plan. The reasons: A) driving […]
