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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 680 Offered January 10, 2001 Prefiled January 10, 2001 Requesting the Virginia Secretary of Transportation to study the desirability and feasibility of transferring responsibilities for secondary highways in Northern Virginia from the Virginia Department of Transportation to the region's counties and vesting in the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation exclusive responsibility for the region's mass transit programs and facilities. ---------- Patron-- O'Brien ---------- Referred to Committee on Rules ----------

WHEREAS, Northern Virginia is one of the most prosperous and dynamic economic regions in the country; and

WHEREAS, the economic vitality of the Commonwealth as a whole is dependent on the economic well-being of Northern Virginia; and

WHEREAS, traffic congestion in Northern Virginia is among the acute and persistent in the United States; and

WHEREAS, Northern Virginia's highways and other elements of its transportation infrastructure have failed to keep pace with the region's population growth and economic expansion to such an extent that the inadequacy of transportation threatens to undermine not only the region's prosperity, but the quality of life of its citizens as well; and

WHEREAS, under the present arrangements all the region's secondary highways, with the exception of Arlington County, are controlled by the Virginia Department of Transportation, and all mass transit programs and facilities are controlled by a variety of entities; and

WHEREAS, it appears both desirable and feasible, as well as in the interest of efficiency and effectiveness, to transfer control of and responsibility for all of Northern Virginia's secondary highways to the counties in which they are located and to vest the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation with exclusive responsibility for the region's mass transit programs and facilities; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the Secretary of Transportation be requested to study the desirability and feasibility of transferring responsibilities for secondary highways in Northern Virginia from the Virginia Department of Transportation to the region's counties and vesting in the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation exclusive responsibility for the region's mass transit programs and facilities.

All agencies of the Commonwealth shall provide assistance to the Secretary for this study, upon request.

The Secretary shall complete her work in time to submit her findings and recommendations to the Governor and the 2002 Session of the General Assembly as provided in the procedures of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the processing of legislative documents.