The debate over what uniform color scheme D.C.’s multihued fleet of taxicabs should adopt is about to be settled, NBC4’s Tom Sherwood started reporting on Twitter earlier today. The D.C. Taxicab Commission is reportedly going with a mostly red body decorated with gray stripes, similar to the paint job featured on the Circulator buses operated by the District Department of Transportation.

District officials put forward nine designs last year, ranging from a sleek all-black getup to a green-and-yellow scheme reminiscent of the Brazilian flag. Though residents had the opportunity earlier this year to vote on which design they liked best, that poll was non-binding.

Neville Waters, a DCTC spokesman, writes in an email that the commission intends to hammer out proposed regulations regarding taxi colors at its next meeting on Wednesday. “The design includes the colors red and gray,” Waters writes, though previews of what exactly the design will look like will not be available until just before the meeting.

But whatever color job the commission picks, it’ll be a while until the entire city is bustling with identically decorated cabs. The color scheme will only apply to new vehicles. Regulations introduced last year stipulate that all cabs more than 15 years old need to be replaced, and that no taxi be more than seven years old by 2017.