Thursday, December 14, 2017

No road diet for Arlington Road

Despite several pedestrian-involved collisions in recent years on Arlington Road, Montgomery County will not put the arterial route on a "road diet." The County Department of Transportation has completed an engineering study it announced last year. Based on the study results, MCDOT is planning to make other changes along Arlington Road, rather than narrow it. These include adding pedestrian-only cycles to traffic signals at several intersection, so that there won't be cars turning while people are crossing in the crosswalks.

Near Bethesda Elementary School, pedestrians will get extra lead time before signals allow cars to start moving forward. These signal changes are expected to be implemented early next year. MCDOT is also looking at adding a missing crosswalk on Bradley Boulevard where it meets Arlington, on the CVS side. Bradley Boulevard is a state route, controlled by the Maryland State Highway Administration.

Prior to their recent study, MCDOT says it had already improved and installed speed limit signage along Arlington, slightly expanded the "school hours" time and flashing lights that warn of the 5 MPH reduction in speed during those periods, and installed high visibility crosswalks at the intersection near the school.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

If they had done a "road diet", you'd still be complaining.

Anonymous said...

Let's put Little Falls Parkway back to two lanes now, please. Put a stop light in for the trail if they need to, but what they did is ridiculous. The biker who died never stopped.

Anonymous said...

No coverage of the new teen museum gallery behind Woodmont Grill? I was interested in what's going on there.

Anonymous said...

6:54 AM Judge Moore?

Anonymous said...

They should look at restricting right turn on red, as well. In my experience this is one of the more dangerous driver behaviors with respect to pedestrians.

Anonymous said...

Amen

Anonymous said...

How about pedestrians actually look up instead of playing chicken with cars. Roads are meant for cars. Sidewalks for people. How quickly people want to act like superman and see if they can stop cars. Idiots.