The County Council sent a list of questions to the State Highway Administration (SHA) about the I-270 project and SHA has responded. Here are the questions and answers that caught…
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Two-Seventy Two-Step
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Some people favor widening I-270 as one component of dealing with the corridor’s infamous state of gridlock. Other people oppose widening and would like to see an all-transit solution. Those…
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The heads of the Maryland Transit Administration and the State Highway Administration wrote the following letter to the Baltimore Sun “clarifying” coverage of I-270. What will Baltimore Guy have to…
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Eleven state legislators from Montgomery County and two state legislators from Frederick County signed a joint letter yesterday calling for light rail on the CCT and toll lanes on I-270….
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The Baltimore Sun’s Michael Dresser reports on a new website established by neighbors of one of the Red Line routes in Baltimore. The aim of the neighbors is to fight…
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Following is the letter from the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce to the County Council.July 20, 2009 Phil AndrewsPresident, Montgomery County Council100 Maryland AvenueRockville, Maryland 20850 Re: Corridor Cities Transitway…
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I-270 Opponents Risk Traffic Nightmare
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By Richard Parsons. The Montgomery County Council will soon have another opportunity to comment on long-standing regional transportation plans to add new HOV or managed-toll lanes along heavily congested sections…
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By Donna Baron. The Gaithersburg West Master Plan is by all accounts unique among master plan nightmares. Not only has the Montgomery County Planning Board proposed to bury a large…
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Following is a two-page memo from County Executive Ike Leggett to County Council President Phil Andrews. For some reason, we cannot locate it on the county government’s website.
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Why CCT Supporters Should Give BRT a Chance
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Some backers of the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) may be disappointed by a recommendation from the Planning Department staff that the project be constructed as bus-rapid transit (BRT). But CCT…