The segment of Woodmont Avenue between Bethesda Avenue and Leland Street (by the future Flats at Bethesda Avenue apartments, and the Darcy condominiums) just got a bit safer. A crosswalk has been painted across the roadway, as well as lines to designate the shift between the 2 travel lanes and turning lanes, and bike lanes.
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Remember when the county decided it would be a good idea to keep the road closed instead of opening it to traffic like they had originally planned. Then after a bunch of people complained they said oh fine and opened the road to traffic. Then a bunch of pedestrians saw it was only opened to cars, but were like 'I don't give a S' and walked in traffic anyway. Then people called it a war on pedestrians. I remember that.
ReplyDelete10:35: All I remember was an attempt to reopen the road before it was ready, the County then reversing that decision when they realized it would be a PR disaster, and then eventually breaking federal, state and county protocols for changing traffic patterns in a publicity stunt reopening where a number of pedestrians almost got hit by cars.
DeleteSadly, Dyer wasn't able to find a way to link this to the "War On Christmas".
ReplyDelete6:01: True. The only link is to the War on Pedestrians.
ReplyDeleteSo how exactly was this road realigned for the better? It doesn't quite line up with the Woodmont's curve on the Row, nor does it really line up when it dumps back out to Miller or Leland.
ReplyDelete1:43 PM Agreed. The two parts of Woodmont at Bethesda Avenue don't line up smoothly at all. It's kind of a confusing mess for drivers.
ReplyDeleteAs a pedestrian, I'm happy that the sidewalks are slowly opening along the new part of Woodmont.
1:43: The road was realigned more for developer considerations than good traffic engineering. They also mean for it to function differently than the original concept of a Wisconsin Avenue bypass. Same thing's going to happen at Executive and Old Georgetown in the near future.
ReplyDeleteHow do you qualify that? If it was realigned for development purposes, they did a crappy job. These two buildings are so far from the rest of Bethesda row, with weird pedestrian crosswalks and a huge weird intersection.
DeleteWhat's the new function in both these places?
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