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NVTA outlines unique regional study to identify funding options for bike and pedestrian network—VDOT estimates up to $19 billion
Summary
Starla Cuso, Northern Virginia Transportation Authority transportation planning and programming manager and project manager for the initiative, told PCAC on Sept. 24 that NVTA is preparing recommendations to identify revenue sources for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure after a March request from the General Assembly.
Starla Cuso, Northern Virginia Transportation Authority transportation planning and programming manager and the project manager for the initiative, told the committee the work responds to a March 2025 request from chairs of the House and Senate transportation committees to review VDOT's 2024 study and recommend funding options. "In March 2025, NVTA received a formal request from the Transportation House and Senate Committee chairs," Cuso said. She summarized an approach that combined a review of existing funding sources, a scan of potential future revenue strategies, national case studies, and broad stakeholder coordination.
The VDOT study served as the inventory: staff said VDOT identified roughly 4,000 miles of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure with an estimated capital cost of about $9 billion in 2022 dollars; NVTA staff presented…
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