Designed, operated, and maintained to world-class standards, the DC transportation system plays a major role in the city's enhanced quality of life, its attractiveness as a residential and business location, its opportunities for entrepreneurship, and its position as the Nation's Capital and the cultural entertainment core of the region.
Vision
People, goods, and information will move efficiently and safely, with minimal adverse impacts on District residents and the environment.
Improved transportation information will make the system as user-friendly for the first-time visitor as it is for the lifelong resident or commuter, regardless of travel mode or traveler's native language.
Tourist travel around town will increasingly be part of the fun of visiting the Nation's Capital, as the transportation system, deliberately planned to take advantage of the District's historical design, current land uses, and natural advantages, becomes part of the city's ambience.
Public transit, automobile travel and parking, water transportation, bicycling, and walking will be balanced and integrated to offer excellent internal mobility, along with convenient access to city gateways, the region, the eastern seaboard and the world.
Strategy
Develop sufficient and consistent funding to sustain world-class infrastructure and an exemplary multi-modal transportation project planning and institutional coordination process by creating new revenue opportunities and innovative financing techniques.
Improve the efficiency, safety, and attractiveness of the existing transportation system through improved maintenance, streetscape, and signage.
Focus transit investment on internal circulation to provide city residents and visitors with improved alternatives to the automobile.
Reduce the impacts of suburb-to-city travel on District residents by intercepting automobile traffic at key locations and providing excellent alternatives to driving in the city.
Promote business in the District by addressing goods movement through improved loading facilities and by improving rail as an alternative to moving goods into and out of the city.
Develop non-traditional, signature transportation for the District, including water-taxi system, light rail, and a world-class bicycle transportation network.
