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Road Gang Meeting ft. Monica Backmon, NVTA
Join us as we host Monica Backmon, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Virginia Transportation Authority
When and where
Date and time
Thursday, March 23 · 12 - 1:30pm EDT
Location
Clyde's The Piedmont Room (2nd floor) 707 7th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20001
Refund Policy
About this event
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Mobile eTicket
Time: Mixing period at 12 noon; Lunch at 12:15 pm; Speaker at 12:45 pm
Location: The Piedmont Room (2nd floor, in the back), Clyde’s of Gallery Place, 707 7th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
Transportation Options:
Metrorail: Gallery Place-Chinatown Station on Red, Green, and Yellow lines.
Discounted parking available at Gallery Place Parking Garage, 6th Street between G and H Streets
About our speaker...
Monica Backmon is the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) and has led NVTA since May 2014. Bringing more than 20 years of public and private sector transportation experience, Ms. Backmon oversees the region’s long-range planning, prioritization, and funding of regionally significant projects bringing multimodal transportation solutions to Northern Virginia. Managing an annual revenue stream provided through House Bill 2313 that is trending at $425 million per year, Ms. Backmon led the NVTA through the adoption of all six funding programs, the most recent occurring in July of 2022. With the implementation of NVTA’s six funding programs, NVTA is advancing 122 regional multimodal transportation projects totaling nearly $3.12 billion for congestion reduction throughout the region. Ms. Backmon also oversees the distribution of $110 million annually to the Authority’s nine member localities for their local transportation priorities.
Under Ms. Backmon’s leadership, NVTA adopted the update to TransAction, Northern Virginia’s long-range transportation plan, for the third time in December 2022. TransAction includes elements of technology and innovation and an emerging regional Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system amongst its 424 projects.
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About the organizer
The Road Gang is an informal group of business and government executives, highway engineers and consultants, press and public relations specialists, company representatives, and trade association officials from the highway transportation industry in the Washington, D.C. area. The Road Gang serves the dual purpose of promoting fellowship and providing for the interchange of ideas among “Washington's Transportation Fraternity.”