Bethesda winter storm/road/transit update #Snowzilla #Jonas #Blizzard2016

Plowing operations are now in-progress for Montgomery County-maintained routes termed "primary neighborhood roads" in Bethesda. These include roads like Burdette Road, Drummond Avenue and Cromwell Drive. But the County plow tracker shows snow operations are complete on none of these routes, nor on the major County "emergency roads". MCDOT tweeted to the Montgomery County Civic Federation this morning that the map is not actually live, nor connected to GPS in snowplows, making it less-than-real-time information.

There are reports of treacherous travel, and the Maryland State Highway Administration is reminding drivers that there may be reduced space or number of lanes on some routes.

Metrorail is just opening at 7:00 AM with limited service. In Bethesda, that means you can only travel between Medical Center and Union Station; service is cut off to Grosvenor and North Bethesda.

The Orange Line is running only between Ballston and Eastern Market, and the Green Line from Fort Totten to Anacostia only. But the Silver, Blue and Yellow Lines are out-of-service entirely.

Metrobus: Only the following routes are in operation:

• District of Columbia: 32, 33, 36, 53, 70, 90, A6, A8, S4, U8, V4, X2
• Maryland: C4, D12, K6, P12, Q2, Y2, Z8
• Virginia: 16A, 16E, 28A

Ride On Bus service is canceled for today, as are Maryland MTA Commuter Bus service and MARC rail.

The first take-off and landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport since Winter Storm Jonas hit took place a short time ago.

Montgomery County Public Schools and the federal government are closed.