SHA to unveil plan
at meeting tonight,
community to hold
their own meeting
April 23, 2018
These preview images show the project that is expected to be revealed tonight by SHA; the meeting will be in an open house format, with displays around the room, and SHA staff to answer questions.
In the plan, the temporary bollards that control turns at the intersection now will be replaced by permanent concrete curbs. Left turns will remain permitted in both directions from River Road. SHA will also make safety improvements at the crosswalk, including a traffic signal that will be activated by pedestrians when crossing. This signal will stop traffic when activated. A similar signal works quite well at Westbard Avenue and Westbard Circle in Bethesda.
It sounds like a good solution in that congested traffic will not be repeatedly held up by a constant light cycle turning red, and pedestrians will have a safe crossing. Flashing warning signs will alert drivers coming up the hill in both directions to prepare to stop at the crosswalk.
IMO, the barrier should prevent any turns off or onto River Road at that intersection. One can easily make a u-turn at Wilson or Whittier. But I love the pedestrian activated crosswalk light. That should be put in many places as well.
ReplyDeleteUsing "Cadillac" as a metaphor is outdated. By about four decades.
ReplyDeleteAlso, what makes you believe that someone going over 100 mph would have stopped for a trafficc light?
So that's a HAWK (pedestrian-activated traffic light), right? This was proposed right after the crash but apparently HAWKs were not allowed in the MD regulations. Did they change that? There was talk about doing so.
ReplyDeleteThey have one in DC on Connecticut Ave by the Uptown Theater and it works well.
6:43: No, this is a full green-yellow-red signal activated by pedestrian. The HAWK signal only gives a flashing yellow light when activated.
DeleteWith regard to your previous post about Bethesda’s nightlife. Have you ever been to Thailand? When’s the last time you have gone abroad? Does your mom need to grant you leave from the basement? You aren’t exactly a fixture on the Bethesda social scene and don’t appear to have much of a social life from your bizarre YouTube videos...so why do you bother writing about Bethesda nightlife? Funny that a guy stuck in the 80s and pushing 50 years old is commenting on Bethesda’s bar scene. I’m looking forward to posting your rant to Bethesda Bar Buddies Facebook group. You knew it was a stupid post so you turned off comments. Cowardly.
ReplyDelete6:56: You think the bar owners will disagree with my bodyslam of the County liquor monopoly? You are definitely on the drinking side of the bar, not the pouring side!
DeleteIt looks like a standard red/yellow/green light in the drawings, not a HAWK.
ReplyDelete6:56 AM Cowardly is making a lot of false claims on not signing your name.
ReplyDeleteI love EastMoCo! Great source of news in the news deserts of the East county.
ReplyDeleteRobert Dyer seems to believe that children are spontaneously generated by multi-family housing.
ReplyDeleteHe also needs to pay property taxes to support our Montgomery County Public Schools, to help shrink the deficit.
Or else he needs to push for family planning programs.
9:24: Over 50% of BCC students live in apartments. There were many more kids living in SFHs when I was growing up vs today - that Planning Department claim that kids are coming from existing SFHs is total BS. I can point out the specific houses where people had 4-6 kids just on the street where I grew up alone! Lots of them. Now it's 1-3 kids at most. I realize as a carpetbagger, you wouldn't know this.
DeleteI actually pay all taxes I'm required to, unlike you. That's why you're an ex-con working for the MoCo cartel for pizza money and a free dingy apartment. #goals
9:24 AM Enough with the ad hominems. Stick to the facts and issues.
ReplyDelete10:14 AM / 10:13 AM / 10:30 AM is back with his ad hominems.
ReplyDeleteThis is a serious issue that Robert Dyer is reporting on.
"I actually pay all taxes I'm required to, unlike you."
ReplyDeleteSales taxes and excise taxes on malt liquor and bumwines. LOL
"Over 50% of BCC students live in apartments. There were many more kids living in SFHs when I was growing up vs today - that Planning Department claim that kids are coming from existing SFHs is total BS."
"I can point out the specific houses where people had 4-6 kids just on the street where I grew up alone! Lots of them. Now it's 1-3 kids at most."
That's because the birth rate was much higher for all families back then, regardless of their type of dwelling. Are you really too stupid to realize this? Do you really think that all the families with 3-6 children are living in apartments instead of SFHs now?
"I realize as a carpetbagger, you wouldn't know this."
I realize that you need to make the most of "lifelong resident" of your parents' house, because you have no other accomplishments to your name. I also realize that you're clueless to the ethnic/racial overtones of your repeated use of the term "carpetbagger".
Anyway, it's nice to see you wide awake during normal business hours, for a change. :)
2:37: You claim I don't know birthrates were higher when that was exactly what I pointed out, dumbass. You've always been frustrated about my lifelong residency status, understandable, as you are a carpetbagger like most on the County Council.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, there are less kids generated from SFH neighborhoods today than from the apartment and townhouse communities, which is why schools are so crowded. Time to pull up the ladders.
1) "There are less kids generated from SFH neighborhoods today..."
ReplyDelete2) "...than from the apartment and townhouse communities..."
3) "...which is why schools are so crowded."
Do you have any actual numbers to back up your claims?
8:10: You seem to have missed the actual number that more than 50% of BCC students are from apartment buildings. Source: BCC HS Student Directory. Just wait outside of any apartment building for the school bus in the morning. There were already 10 kids when the Flats at 8300 just opened. Most likely MPDUs.
ReplyDeleteRather than considering the possibility that many young couples having children can no longer afford to live in single-family neighborhoods in Montgomery County, and thus now tend to live in townhouse and apartment communities, Dyer continues to imagine that apartment buildings somehow spontaneously generate children.
ReplyDeleteOr else he is just using multi-family housing as a racial dog-whistle.
8:30: Do you realize how dumb you sound? You just supported my argument by admitting that apartments and townhomes are generating more kids than single-family homes!
ReplyDeleteHow would pointing out the facts that multi-family housing generates more kids be a "racial dog whistle?" You're struggling, man. Struggling!
So, you don't have any actual numbers to back up your claims? You were asked for it and you deflected. Disappointing. Normal for Dyer, but disappointing in someone with political aspirations.
ReplyDeleteSo, where are the actual links to outside sites; sites not linking to more of your opinion?
5:16: It's not an opinion, but a fact, that more than 50% of BCC HS students live in apartment buildings. It's also a fact that the new families in the Whitman school district neighborhood where I grew up are smaller, not larger - LESS kids than decades ago. Facts are not opinions.
ReplyDeleteIf you continually refuse to support your words, they are no more than opinion.
ReplyDelete"more than 50% of BCC HS students live in apartment buildings"
Link to official statistics?
"new families in the Whitman school district neighborhood where I grew up are smaller, not larger - LESS kids than decades ago"
Link to official statistics?
Of course your inference that if you have kids and you live in downtown Bethesda, you MUST be in a MPDU unit? What's that about?
5:59: Source: BCC Student Directory. Do people always have to tell you something multiple times for you to comprehend something?
DeleteGo knock on doors in 20816 and ask, if you are so dense you don't know that family sizes have shrunk in that zip code.
Am I the only one that think it’s ironic that a 50 year old that lives with his mother makes fun of others and calls them a hobo and a carpetbagger?
ReplyDeleteSo the number of children living in single-family homes has gone down, while it has gone up for apartments. Sounds like the two cancel each other out.
ReplyDeleteSo, you still can't post anything official that supports your words. More deflecting.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the actual links to outside sites; sites not linking to more of your opinion?
Of course your inference that if you have kids and you live in downtown Bethesda, you MUST be in a MPDU unit? What's that about? Ah, you must be backtracking on that one!
The moment you think I'm stupid, I've already outsmarted you.
It's always a dodge when it comes to credible proof. Anyone who calls it out is called stupid, lazy, dishonest, girly man....
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