Greater Washington Partnership hosted transportation professionals from across the region for a workshop exploring collaborative strategies to enhance our competitiveness in securing federal infrastructure grants. We gathered state and local transportation planners from Baltimore to Richmond and private sector stakeholders to identify and break down challenges in the process – short deadlines, resource constraints, and barriers to intra-agency communication – before discussing actionable solutions.
Special thanks to Jon Godsmark and Tim Melrose from EY for hosting the event and facilitating discussion, and to Sierra Laventure-Volz of WSP and Qingbin Cui of the Build America Center for bringing their expertise and energy to the session. Further, we appreciate the support of Jennifer Bradley and The Kresge Foundation in this initiative.