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NVTA to draft conditional response to legislature’s bike‑ped study request after board debate
Summary
After a lengthy discussion about capacity and precedent, NVTA asked staff to draft a letter to General Assembly committee chairs saying NVTA is willing to help evaluate the Northern Virginia bicycling/pedestrian network but that the work would require additional resources or reimbursement; the board took a straw poll favoring that conditional approach.
Members of the General Assembly had asked NVTA to review the December Northern Virginia Bicycling & Pedestrian Network Study and recommend projects for consideration by the General Assembly. Board members debated whether NVTA should take on that request without funding.
Several board members and staff said NVTA has the technical expertise to perform the review and that producing a regional recommendation could help bicycle and pedestrian projects win future funding. Others warned that accepting unfunded legislative requests could create an…
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