Regional transportation officials on Wednesday chastised Virginia for not ponying up its full share for a regional disaster response program created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The program, called the Metropolitan Area Transportation Operations Coordination, operates on a $1.2 million annual budget funded equally by the District, Maryland and Virginia transportation departments. But the Virginia Department of Transportation said it’s committing only $150,000 this year, according to a Tuesday letter from Northern Virginia District Administrator Garrett Moore obtained by The Washington Examiner.
At the monthly meeting of the Transportation Planning Board, which created the program, officials said they were frustrated with the seeming lack of progress after the Jan. 26 snowstorm that stranded thousands in the region. They placed some of the blame on the commonwealth.
