Brick paver replacement at Bethesda Public Parking Garage 57 (Photos)

Brick pavers in the driveway entrance are being replaced at the Bethesda-Elm Public Parking Garage 57 at 4841 Bethesda Avenue at Bethesda Row. Last night, part of the Bethesda Avenue entrance driveway was cordoned off for the work. The pavers line up with the sidewalk on Bethesda Avenue. They are the official, mandated downtown Bethesda streetscape pavers.

Mystery of the malfunctioning Bethesda Row garage signs solved (Photo)

If you've used Public Parking Garage 57 at Bethesda Row in the last couple of months, you may have noticed that the helpful Spaces Available sign has been stuck on "OPEN". A number of readers have been asking why this is, so I inquired with the Montgomery County Department of Transportation's Division of Parking Management.

DPM says that there is a problem with the wireless communication between the router inside the garage and the signs outside. When they noticed the wrong number of spaces being displayed on the signs, they had to switch them to read, "OPEN".

They said they've now identified a fix for the glitch, and that the signs should be working again "within a week."