Connect the activity of cores throughout the region with transit and have vast majority of new housing and office developments within these activity centers

200 miles of light rail and BRT by 2030

Reduces reliance on private automobiles Provides viable alternative to driving alone Transit stations are focal points for compact,

mixed-use, walkable, transit-oriented development, which make them more sustainable

Reduces vehicle-miles of travel and emissions

Why promote LRT and BRT?

Post, Present and Future Miles of Transitway

in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

1932 2010 20300

100200300400500600700800900

1000

Trolley106

Metro

433Existing

292Commuter

Rail

428Planned

35 - DCC

Mile

s of

Tran

sitw

ay

226

861

433

Post, Present and Future Population in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

1932 2010 20300

2

4

6

8

794,135

5,266,300

6,441,300

Popu

lati

on

(in

m

illio

ns)

Miles of Transitway Per 100,000 Population

in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.

1932 2010 20300

5

10

15

20

25

30 28.5

8.2

13.4

Mile

s of

Transi

tway P

er

10

0,0

00

Popula

tion

Washington was better served by transit 80 years ago than it is today.

Plans have been proposed to double the existing transitway mileage.

Even with this additional mileage, the region would be served by less than half the mileage provided 80 years ago when indexed to population.

200 additional miles of transitway is a little less than half the planned mileage and is a reasonable goal.

So what can we conclude from these numbers?