Tomorrow, April 26, is election day. But Bethesda residents are organizing a morning event that may have implications for the 2018 election. From 10:00 AM until noon Tuesday, residents will rally outside the Montgomery County Council office building at 100 Maryland Avenue in Rockville, against the controversial Westbard sector plan.
Councilmembers have paused to calculate how much of a threat the massive opposition to the plan poses to their political careers. They plan to vote on the plan May 3 as it stands now.
The plan would allow 3550 new residents, and nearly that many additional cars, to be stuffed into a 1.5 city block space. It would change the character from low-density suburban to high-density urban. And it has no project to increase road capacity, and no capital funding for new classrooms and schools, nor a viable plan to achieve them.
TRAY OR BE TRAYED!!1!
ReplyDeleteThis is why we need safety regulations on ALL car-for-hire services:
ReplyDelete"Uber and Lyft don't allow DUI offenders to drive for the company, but dozens of riders have reported seeing the devices while using the ride-sharing services."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/why-is-my-lyft-driver-breathing-into-an-ignition-interlock-device/2016/04/24/79e0078e-f114-11e5-89c3-a647fcce95e0_story.html
11:56 WTF
ReplyDeleteComparing the land area to the size of 1.5 city blocks is, probably, the worst benchmark you could possibly use. Unless of course, you oppose the plan.
ReplyDelete1:53 PM What does that old article have to do with the Westbard protests?
ReplyDelete@11:56 Actually, I think there's nothing wrong with that. If the driver needs to blow into their ignition interlock every 15 minutes, then you _know_ they're not driving drunk, as the car won't allow it.
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