Verizon crews have now closed 2 northbound lanes of Wisconsin Avenue between Montgomery Avenue and East-West Highway in Bethesda.
A lane of westbound East-West Highway is also closed approaching the Bethesda Metro Center.
The closures are related to ongoing utility work. These traffic jams are a good test run for what Wisconsin will be like if Montgomery County BRT supporters' nefarious plan to seize 2 lanes of the road for buses succeeds.
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How can you claim the closure of two lanes for a utility project is a "test run" for BRT when the BRT, as proposed, would close one lane and that one lane would include buses that people would use?
Wisconsin was a disaster saturday afternoon when the lane was closed. Totally jammed. I can't imagine what it'd be like if BRT gobbles up lanes.
If people were actually concerned about traffic, they'd get out of their air-conditioned Mercedes with the heated-leather seats and ride the damn bus. But they don't, so stop complaining.
It was a Saturday, people were shuttling their kids to little league and stuff. No ones gonna use a bus for everything.
BRT would close 2 lanes on 355 with the current proposal, making it a 4-lane road. There is no hard data anywhere that shows 33% loss of capacity in each direction will improve traffic. As you can see in these photos, "road diets" are the transportation equivalent of those infomercial diet pills.
Exactly. And there's no parking for the BRT, so how will it be convenient to use? Put money towards Metro Red Line and finish the incomplete highway system.
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