current actions

• February 2006: TPB Newsletter provides misleading information about the March 2005 I-66 Study. Chris Zimmerman is quoted as saying, "This is not really a spot improvement proposal. What's being described as spot improvements here--and therefore is not subject to a lot of the usual procedure--in fact, is an extensive effort to put in some of the widening." Read February Issue of TPB News
• January 2006: On January 18, 2006, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) authorized a $9.6 million VDOT "study" of "spot improvements" along 6.5 miles of westbound I-66, between Rosslyn and the Dulles Airport Connector Road. Download Minutes from TPB Meeting. See comments made by ACST on pages 3 and 4. Get More Information about Spot Improvement Study
• December 2005: Read ACST's Letter to Transportation Planning Board re: Proposed VDOT Study of I-66 "Spot Improvements" in Arlington County
• December 2005: VDOT's Descriptions of its Spot Improvement Study
• November 2005: Read ACST's Letter to Governor-Elect Tim Kaine
• October 2005: Read ACST's Letter to WMATA re: Metro Funding Summit
• April 2005: Read the Arlington County Board Resolution on Idea-66 and I-66 Inside the Beltway Feasibility Study
• January 2005: Secretary Clement sends response to ACST letter. Read Letter
• December 2004: ACST sends letter to Secretary Clement regarding secrecy of I-66 Study. Read Letter
• May 2004: Transportation Planning Board approves feasibility study of I-66 widening and alternatives inside the beltway.
• September 2003: Governor Warner sends response letters to Arlington County Board Chairman Ferguson and to Representatives Wolf and Davis. Read Letter
• June 2003: ACST sends letter to Governor Warner. Read Letter
• June 2003: Arlington County Board Chairman Paul Ferguson sends letter to Governor Warner in response to Representatives Wolf and Davis' letter. Read Letter
• June 2003: Representatives Frank Wolf and Tom Davis send letter to Governor Warner asking to widen I-66. Read Letter
• April 2002: SB 688 passed: This requires that referenda be held in Northern Virginia in the November 2002 election on whether or not the sales tax should be increased in Northern Virginia to fund transportation projects in the area.
• October 2001: Governor Gilmore request $3.18 billion in terrorism response funds, which includes $130 million for "I-66 and Roosevelt Bridge widening." Transportation Planning Board approves a study of I-66 widening inside the Beltway AND ALTERNATIVES TO WIDENING, including a full study of the environmental (and other) impacts of widening.
• March 2001: The Northern Virginia Transportation Coordinating Council (TCC) adopts a resolution that is even more explicit about the alternatives that must be analyzed in any study of widening and the impacts of widening that must be studied.
• February 2001: VDoT submits to the TPB a proposed CLRP/TIP amendment for a "preliminary engineering study" of widening I-66 inside the Beltway. Virginia legislature approves Sen. Whipple's resolution (SJ411) that directs VDoT to study a variety of alternatives to widening I-66 inside the Beltway.
• Fall of 2000: The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) approves comprehensive transportation plan updates (updates to the "CLRP/TIP") that do NOT include widening of I-66 inside the Beltway. The Commonwealth Transportation Board adopts a 6-year state transportation spending plan that DOES include $5 million for a "preliminary engineering" study of widening of I-66 inside the Beltway.
• Early 2000: Virginia legislature adopts transportation funding package that does NOT include widening I-66 inside the Beltway.
• December 1999: Arlington County Board adopts resolution opposing the widening of I-66 inside the Beltway. Northern Virginia Transportation Coordinating Council approves final, comprehensive "NoVa 2020 Plan," which proposes $30 billion in regional transportation expenditures over the next 20 years, but does NOT include widening I-66 inside the Beltway.