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Three members of a Whitman family were killed in a collision at the intersection on February 27, 2016. The driver who struck their vehicle was inexplicably going 115 MPH, and is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to manslaughter. At last check, SHA was still conducting a $25,000 engineering study on the intersection. Now it appears the Hogan administration is ready to act.
A public meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 7:00 PM (snow date: Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 7:00 PM) in the cafeteria at Whitman, located at 7100 Whittier Boulevard. No details about the proposed project have been made public by the SHA, and I could find no information about it on the Projects page of the SHA website.
According to an SHA announcement, the March 29 meeting will not be a public hearing, and there will be no formal presentation. Instead, displays around the room will show renderings of the "roadway design improvements" being proposed. Community members who attended meetings at Whitman since the accident have overwhelmingly favored adding a traffic signal, ideally at a new intersection just south of the existing one, where a crosswalk is today. An accident at that crosswalk last March was demonstrative of the dangers the unsignaled crossing poses to pedestrians and drivers.
Attendees of the meeting will be able to tour the displays at their own pace, and ask questions of SHA representatives. No RSVP is necessary.
Good lord, Dyer, Hogan has nothing to do with this but we've got your boy-crush mural creeping us all out again. Off your meds or what?
ReplyDelete"Attendees of the meeting will be able to tour the displays at their own pace, and ask questions of SHA representatives."
ReplyDeleteDo you plan on asking questions, Robert?
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ReplyDeleteWhy didn't you use a more recent pic of your idol, this photo is over two years old, when he HAD hair?
ReplyDeleteLuv our Guv!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that Dyer is obsessed so much over Hogan, despite the fact that he doesn't support any of Dyer's ridiculous ideas like Montgomery County being moribund and a second bridge across the Potomac.
ReplyDeleteWhy is this so complicated? If they want to solve the problem, the Whitman principal can close the back gate. Then inexperienced student drivers can make the left at Wilson or Whittier instead, both of which have traffic lights.
ReplyDeleteThe principal can solve this problem today if he likes.
Hard to contemplate what kind of “structural improvements” can mitigate the impact of a reckless driver who chooses to crest the hill just before this intersection while traveling 115mph in a 45mph zone ...
ReplyDeleteWe're the three who died clones of Hogan from 2012?
ReplyDeleteRIP, Hogan I, Hogan II and Hogan III.
ReplyDeleteThoughts and prayers...
"Ironically, it was exactly a year ago today that the Whitman and Bannockburn communities met at Walt Whitman High School, to again implore the state to take action."
ReplyDeleteWhy is this ironic?
You mean "coincidentally", not "ironically", you ignoramus.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it ironic, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteWhy no coverage regarding the Montrose Parkway East extention????
ReplyDeleteAnd no I am not that psycho Anonymous troll and Yes I do support more Highway growth in Montgomery County
I completely agree with the comment written at 7:26 am. It's not like there are no other ways of getting to Whitman that are safer. Lock the back gate, and I wouldmfurther suggest that a median is built on River Road to forbid any left turns at that intersection. Such an easy and economical and safe solution.
ReplyDeleteThere are pedestrian safety issues as well as vehicle traffic turning issues along this stretch of River Road. I've not done carpool duty as a Whitman parent, but imagine that moving all of the traffic to Whittier would substantially slow traffic there, and cars attempting to leave the neighborhood north of Whitman would find the process difficult. I'd focus first on safety for all traffic in this area, then on making travel work as smoothly as possible for all. Perhaps drivers on River also need to observe the posted speed limits and pedestrian crossings more diligently.
ReplyDeleteJust what we don't need: Another traffic signal
ReplyDeleteThe guy driving at 115 mph would have stopped for a red light.
ReplyDeleteYes he would have.
Why are y'all looking at me like that?