Transportation

Visualize 2050 Comment Form

The Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is a public entity and is always interested in hearing about the concerns and interests of the residents of the National Capital Region. 

Dates Current Public Comment Opportunities
   
Oct. 23-Nov. 21, 2025 

The Visualize 2050 comment period is open October 23-November 21, 2025. The official Visualize comment period ends at 11:59 P.M. on November 21.

Documents open for comment: Draft Visualize 2050 National Capital Region Transportation Plan, Draft FY 2026-2029 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), and the Draft Air Quality Conformity Analysis Report. All documents are located at visualize2050.org. Explore the Visualize 2050 interactive map gallery and other plan resources. For updates, subscribe to the TPB News/Visualize 2050 newsletter mailing list. 
Ongoing  Public comments are accepted on transportation issues under consideration by the TPB at their monthly meetings. Click here to comment on non-Visualize 2050 items. 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

About Visualize 2050

Visualize 2050 is the National Capital Region’s transportation plan. Through this plan, the TPB outlines the many topics considered and investments anticipated to improve the National Capital Region’s multimodal transportation system through the year 2050.

The TPB, as the federally designated metropolitan planning organization for metropolitan Washington, develops the plan in partnership with transportation agencies in the District of Columbia, and the cities and counties in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. State and local agencies, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), plan and fund transportation projects ranging from roadway construction to bus and rail transit service, to bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

To learn more about Visualize 2050 and view plan documents, visit visualize2050.org

Visualize 2050 Comment Period

October 23-November 21, 2025
Comment period closes 11:59 P.M. Eastern on November 21.

Options for Visualize 2050 comment:

  • Using the online form below (Please upload files for comments longer than 1,000 characters.)
  • Sending an email to TPBcomment@mwcog.org
  • Leaving a voicemail at (202) 962-3774 (messages can be up to 3 minutes long)
  • In-person, spoken comment (Applies only to in-person board meetings with advance notice per below. Limited to 1-minute per speaker for November 19, 2025, TPB meeting.)
  • Writing to the TPB Chair at:

National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board
777 North Capitol Street NE, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20002-4239

Interested members of the public will be given the opportunity to make brief in-person comments on Visualize 2050 at the November 19, 2025, TPB meeting. During the November meeting, comments will be limited to 1-minute per speaker. For any member of the public who wishes to address the board on the day of a meeting, they may do so by emailing TPBcomment@mwcog.org with the subject line “Item 1 Public Comment Opportunity Visualize 2050” or by calling and leaving a phone message at (202) 962-3315. Please indicate your wish to address the TPB in person.

All written comments will be summarized during the meeting and comments in full will be shared with TPB members as part of their published meeting materials. These statements must be received by staff no later than 12:00 P.M. (Noon) on the Tuesday prior to the board meeting, to be relayed to the board at the meeting.   

Please be aware that public comments are included in full without redaction of personal information on the TPB’s meeting page. You may elect to remove your Personally Identifiable Information. If you choose not to, it will be part of the public record. 

Comment on Visualize 2050

The Transportation Planning Board is a public entity and is always interested in hearing about the concerns and interests of the residents of the National Capital Region.

Comments may be submitted by:

  • Using the online form below (Please upload files for comments longer than 1,000 characters.)
  • Sending an email to: tpbcomment@mwcog.org
  • Leaving a voicemail at (202) 962-3774 (up to 3 minutes in length)
  • Writing to the TPB Chair at:

National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board
777 North Capitol Street NE, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20002

Spell Check

Comments longer than 1,000 characters in length may be submitted by uploading a Word or PDF document below.

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About the Public Comment Period

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is the region’s designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO), with responsibility for federally required regional transportation planning for the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland, and Northern Virginia. The TPB will initiate a 30-day public comment period for the draft Visualize 2050: National Capital Region Transportation Plan, the draft FY 2026-2029 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), and the findings of the accompanying Air Quality Conformity Analysis of the draft plan and TIP on Thursday, October 23, 2025. This comment period will extend through Friday, November 21, 2025. These documents are scheduled to be approved at the December 17, 2025 TPB meeting.

Visualize 2050 is the federally mandated metropolitan transportation plan for the National Capital Region. The plan documents the current state of transportation in the region, the many topics planners and engineers consider when analyzing transportation and related issues, the amount of money anticipated to be available through the plan’s horizon year, 2050, priority transportation investments to alleviate transportation and related issues, as well as TPB’s vision, principles, goals, and strategies for future regional transportation planning.

The TIP is the federally mandated transportation improvement program documenting the planned obligations for funding transportation projects and programs for the next four years (2026-2029). The comment process on the TIP collects input on the region’s program of projects that are funded by the Federal Transit Administration (including projects funded by the Urbanized Area Formula Program) and the Federal Highway Administration.

The Air Quality Conformity analysis is the federally mandated report which assesses the Visualize 2050 National Capital Region Transportation Plan and FY 2026-2029 Transportation Improvement Program with respect to the air quality requirements under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.

PLEASE NOTE: Comments pertaining to specific projects will be provided to the relevant state-level jurisdiction (District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia).

Title VI Nondiscrimination Policy

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) operates its programs without regard to race, color, and national origin and fully complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related statutes and regulations prohibiting discrimination in all programs and activities. For more information, to file a Title VI related complaint, or to obtain information in another language, visit www.mwcog.org/nondiscrimination or call (202) 962-3300.

El Consejo de Gobiernos del Área Metropolitana de Washington (COG) opera sus programas sin tener en cuenta la raza, el color, y el origen nacional y cumple con el Título VI de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964 y los estatutos y reglamentos relacionados que prohíben la discriminación en todos los programas y actividades. Para más información, presentar una queja relacionada con el Título VI, u obtener información en otro idioma, visite www.mwcog.org/nondiscrimination o llame al (202) 962-3300.