Posts tagged Mcdot
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Berliner hammers MCDOT for bad road designs
Plans for White Flint call for roads that accommodate people walking, biking, and sitting at cafes as well as driving, but Montgomery County transportation officials are disregarding those plans, as Dan Reed reported. Councilmember Roger Berliner took them to task in a recent letter. Berliner, who is the County Council’s transportation chair and whose District 1 also… Keep reading…
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Road designs stand in the way of White Flint’s urban future
White Flint’s future as an urban place depends on a street network that welcomes people on foot and bike, not just in cars, and roads that are pleasant to spend time in, not just move through. But county transportation officials may not make getting there easy. On Monday, representatives of the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) gave a presentation… Keep reading…
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Small changes can make walking to school safer
Montgomery County could do a lot to make walking to school safer and more convenient, and at little cost. All it takes is a few changes to the law, signs and paint, and retiming some traffic signals. These are the recommendations from the Safe Walk to School campaign, which launched last week. The Action Committee for Transit, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association, the mother… Keep reading…
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Ride shows the need to expand Montgomery’s bike network
Capital Bikeshare could come to Montgomery County this year, along with an influx of new riders. It’s time to look at how to improve the county’s bike network. To do so, a group of 20 bicyclists took to the streets of Silver Spring and Takoma Park last Saturday on a 5-mile ride organized by myself and the Montgomery County Sierra Club. Last summer, I began working with… Keep reading…
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Montrose Parkway undermines White Flint’s urban future
After 40 years of planning, an extension of Montrose Parkway through White Flint could soon become a reality. County and state transportation officials say the highway is needed to move cars, but residents and county planners say it contradicts their goal of making White Flint an urban center. Yesterday, the Montgomery County Planning Board recommended that the State Highway… Keep reading…
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Upcounty residents call for action on pedestrian safety
“We’re all drivers. We’re all pedestrians. We all just want to get to where we’re going,” said one Germantown resident at the Action Committee for Transit’s public forum on pedestrian issues in upcounty Montgomery County in Germantown on Saturday. The 50 or so participants ranged in age from elementary school children to senior citizens. Keep reading…
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8 ½ minutes to cross the street
When you get off the northbound bus at Route 355 and Shady Grove Road in Rockville, it takes 8½ minutes to cross legally to the other side of the street. Along the way, you traverse 28 traffic lanes. Just last week, two pedestrians were severely injured crossing the street at this intersection. I went there Saturday to look around. When I explained what I was interested… Keep reading…
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Clarksburg crosswalk would cost $27 million
Only in Clarksburg would it cost $27 million to get a marked crosswalk so that children can walk to school safely and conveniently. That’s because the Montgomery County Department of Transportation refuses to install one until it spends $27 million on road construction. Clarksburg, Montgomery County’s last master-planned development in the I-270 corridor,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bonded
Dems make Bonds interim councilmember; Judge blocks Ivy City yard; Arlington rejects electric taxis; Bethesda could be better for bikes; From parking to park; DC still the Corcoran’s home; DC one of the choiciest; Tax land, not buildings?; And…. Keep reading…
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Montgomery DOT tells children: Don’t cross the street
Buster Keaton was being funny when he drove across the street to propose marriage in his 1924 movie The Navigator. But the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) was completely serious last month when they told children in Clarksburg to take a school bus 4 miles out of the way instead of walking across the street. Many parents in the new Gateway Commons development… Keep reading…