The Montgomery County Department of Transportation has reduced the speed limit on Ridgefield Road in Bethesda from 25 to 20 MPH between Westbard Avenue and Springfield Drive. That stretch of the Springfield neighborhood has carried heavy volumes of cut-through traffic since Ridgefield was closed between River Road and Westbard this past summer. It is scheduled to reopen with a realigned Westbard Avenue in October 2023. The segment of the street where the new speed limit has been set is entirely residential.
6 months into a detour plan that has been a colossal failure and all an $11B company (Regency Centers) can do to protect the neighborhood is install 3 signs reducing the speed limit by 5 miles per hour.
ReplyDeleteNow everyone knows what the folks who live on 5500 block of Westbard Ave. have put up with. Non-stop traffic, and 50% of those drivers breaking some law.
ReplyDeletePermanently closing Ridgefield at River was a criminal act by MC politicians.
ReplyDeleteThe first question everybody needs to ask is: What was the benefit of doing this to the citizens of MC? The answer, of course, is that there was no benefit, indeed, quite the opposite.
The second question is: Why, then, did the MC elected officials do this, or permit this? The only answer that makes sense is personal gain of some sort, probably well hidden. Why else would they do this? Have they explained how this benefits anybody? The temptation of personal gain is hard to turn down. Human frailty still rules.
My guess is that eventually, Ridgefield road will be reopened. Still, I feel no pity for the residents of Springfield. Almost to a person, they're Bolsheviks who voted for Bolsheviks. Now they're moaning about being slapped in the face by their fellow Bolsheviks.
I think you’d better do some research on the word “bolshevik”.
Delete“ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” - Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride