The University Boulevard Corridor Plan envisions a community with safer streets, thriving local businesses, better public transit, and more housing choices to meet people’s needs at all ages and stages of life. Visit our landing page at smartergrowth.net/ubc to take action and learn more about the plan.

The draft Visualize 2050 plan, our region's long-range transportation plan, has too many highway and arterial road expansions that will increase driving and climate emissions. We will miss our region’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 – even if there’s a rapid switch to electric vehicles.

July 29, 2025 | Ginny Bixby | Bethesda Magazine An advocacy group that lobbied against the highway plan praised the council’s decision Tuesday in a press release. “Plans for M-83 were based on obsolete planning assumptions that are out of sync with what we know today about effectively meeting transportation

Consumer Affairs released its ranking of the cities with the worst congestion and DC ranked #1. “These rankings routinely show DC in the top four, so it’s not news that our region has congestion. For one thing, it’s a sign of a healthy economy, and in our case, the return to office requirement,” said Stewart Schwartz, Executive Director of the Coalition for Smarter Growth.

June 28, 2025 | Dana Munro and Rachel Weiner | Washington PostAlso featuring Montgomery for All Steering Committee Mike Larkin! One major concern of the free buses, Larkin said, is that the lack of revenue coming in could justify the county disinvesting in the system, especially as Montgomery County deals