A Maryland State Highway Administration crew was working overnight to remove bus lanes on Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Bethesda. They were using equipment to erase pavement markings that restricted the use of the right lane in both directions to buses only, during the closure of several Red Line Metro stations this summer. MDSHA vetoed the demand of several Montgomery County elected officials to make the temporary lanes permanent. Those officials - who had hoped to replicate a previous Trojan horse bait-and-switch scheme that saw "temporary" bus lanes on Georgia Avenue become permanent - were browbeating the state agency as late as last week. But MDSHA said the data verdict on the bus lanes was so bad that there was no justification to make them permanent, and actually stuck to their guns this time.
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