Loudoun's Randall Appointed To Lead NoVA Transportation Authority

NORTHERN VIRGINIA — The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) appointed a new chair, Phyllis Randall, chair of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, and a new Vice Chairman, Hal Parrish, mayor of the City of Manassas, for calendar year 2020. Dumfries Mayor Derrick Wood was reappointed as the town representative on the authority.

The authority's outgoing chairman, Marty Nohe, Coles District supervisor in Prince William County, served on the authority for 11 consecutive years. Nohe lost his May bid for the Republican nomination for the at-large chairman position to John Gray, who ultimately lost to Prince William County Board Chair-elect Ann Wheeler, a Democrat. NVTA is a 17-member regional body responsible for long-range transportation planning and programming for Northern Virginia.

"Being a part of an entity that is focused on keeping the region moving and less time on roadways, has be extremely rewarding," Nohe said in a Dec. 18 statement. "I have no doubt Northern Virginia will be in capable hands with Chair Randall taking the helm."

Randall said she plans to continue Nohe's example of working across party and jurisdictional lines to tackle traffic congestion, an issue that impacts the DC region daily.

Parrish, who also chairs the authority's Finance Committee, has been a member of the authority since its creation by the Virginia General Assembly in 2002. Wood was reappointed to represent Northern Virginia towns with a population of 3,500 or more.

The authority's first meeting of 2020 will take place at 7 p.m. on Jan. 9. An open house will be held at NVTA's office at 6 p.m. prior to the meeting to give the public an opportunity to weigh in on TransAction, Northern Virginia's long-range regional, multimodal transportation plan. NVTA's TransAction plan is updated every five years. The current version was adopted in October 2017. The next update is expected to be adopted by December 2022.

NVTA's office is located at 3040 Williams Drive, Suite 200, in Fairfax, near the Route 50 and Gallows Road interchange.