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NVTA staff outline six‑year program evaluation; public comment set April 2–May 17
Summary
NVTA staff told the Planning Coordination Advisory Committee they received 27 eligible project applications requesting about $1.2 billion and outlined how legal CRRC ranking, transaction ratings and long‑term benefit analysis will shape recommendations; public comment opens April 2 with a May 14 hearing.
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority staff presented an evaluation of candidate projects for the Authority's six‑year program and announced a public comment period that will run April 2–May 17, with a public hearing scheduled for May 14.
Starla Cuso, the presenter, said the Authority received 27 applications, "all of which were deemed eligible," and that "the requested NVTA funding amount totals to $1,200,000,000," a sum she said the region does not have. She described the multistep selection process: eligibility checks, quantitative analyses (including CRRC, congestion reduction relative to cost), a transaction project rating built from 10 performance measures, and a long‑term benefit analysis intended to allocate benefits across member jurisdictions over time.
"Virginia code requires that [the Authority] give priority to projects that achieve the greatest congestion reduction relative to cost," Cuso said, describing why staff present the CRRC ranking first.…
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