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| Traffic jam on Jones Bridge Road at Connecticut Avenue |
A public meeting to provide information on the plans is scheduled for Thursday, December 6, 2018 from 7:00-9:00 PM in the cafeteria at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, located at 4301 East-West Highway. There will be no public testimony, and no formal presentation will be delivered. Instead, there will be displays set up around the room and state officials standing by to answer questions.
The proposed project plans indicate MDOT will also add improved stormwater drainage and a shared-use path. MDOT says it plans to begin relocating affected utilities at the intersection as early as this fall, even though the project design is not yet complete.
Despite previous expensive projects to add turning lanes at this spot, traffic remains jammed during rush hour, and whenever there is a large exodus of employees from the base trying to reach the Beltway. The real solution is to force the Pentagon to use the direct Beltway access points into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that were planned and provided long ago, which would take Walter Reed-Beltway-related traffic entirely off of local streets and avoid all signal timing problems at the busy Jones Bridge-Connecticut intersection.
7 comments:
Those of us that just cross Connecticut are screwed now.
I assumed when HHMI moved that retaining wall last year that the entire purpose was to add a third turn lane and keep a right turn and straight lane.
Does anyone know what is going on about a block from there down jones bridge from that intersection toward wisconsin? At first I thought it was new homes, but now it looks more like a road.
"The real solution is to force the Pentagon to use the direct Beltway access points into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center"
I actually agree with Dyer here.
"The Pentagon"
Jeez, you make Walter Reed sound so sinister.
Finally . To start with they just need some new signs and road striping and it can be three lanes left in one evening for cheap.
Scott Orkin - At a minimum, the roadway will need to be resurfaced prior to re-striping. Otherwise the old stripes will eventually show.
Also, I assume that your intention is to have just one lane heading straight/east on Jones Bridge Road. That might not be a popular solution. You can't just squeeze an additional lane in by narrowing all of the lanes - you would need to widen the roadway.
Worse intersection is EW HWy and Connecticut - have the green arrow show at the beginning rather than end of cycle on all of these roads....
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