Metropolitan Washington Council of Goverrnments

The D.C. area has the room to handle housing for all the new jobs and workers expected to arrive over the next 26 years, according a Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments study.

DC's paltry population growth last year hasn't affected one local organization's forecast for the city to reach 1 million residents 25 years from now.

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Government (COG) is kick-starting transportation changes in the region with a resolution directing local jurisdictions to develop policies on highway tolls and bike trail expansions, among goals set…

WASHINGTON — When the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments gets to work next year, the first thing it’s expected to do is approve proposed board leaders who are all African-American. And, the Council of Government’s 2019 Corporate…

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ “Visualize 2045” transportation plan has key proposals for Metrorail, but the transit agency’s leaders are not on board. Visualize 2045, also known as the “Long-Range Regional…

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) voted 29-2 Wednesday to approve Visualize 2045 — a regional plan for $291 billion worth of projects to optimize transportation for the additional 1.2 million people projected to live…

There are aspirations. And there are political realities. On Friday, the Washington area’s top transportation planners offered their ideas for how to handle both. Riffing off a federal requirement that they tally road and transit projects…