Montgomery Parks will present its traffic count data from the controversial road diet on Little Falls Parkway in Bethesda at a "virtual meeting" on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 from 7:00-8:30 PM. Previous traffic counts from May, July and September 2022 can be viewed now online; the new data on February 15 will include December 2022 traffic counts. The data show traffic counts for the parkway, as well as for nearby roads that have experienced cut-through traffic as a result of the two-stage road diet, in Kenwood, Kenwood Forest and the Town of Somerset.
The meeting announcement does not state whether participants will be able to speak or provide feedback, but it says that the public will be able to testify when the data is presented to the Montgomery County Planning Board in late March or early April. No public process has been held on the road diet, which was implemented without public meetings or feedback, nor with a legal budget appropriation by the Montgomery County Council. Click here for the Zoom link for the virtual meeting on February 15.
Avoid at all costs. Ruined a beautiful drive that was not ever a problem in the past and is not a problem now. Insane to take an entire side of the road out of commission. No one should be shocked though. Cars are bad and bikes rule the road. The data will clearly show that the cut thru traffic is at an all time high
ReplyDeleteThis was a very idiotic move by the county. They ruined a critical road.
ReplyDeleteA political closure by people who don't actually have to drive this road or Old Georgetown.
ReplyDelete"and is not a problem now"
ReplyDeleteIf even elderly curmudgeon JAC thinks the road diet hasn't been a problem then obviously it's fine.