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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Friendship Heights construction update: Potbelly (Photos)
Things are moving slowly on the interior construction of Potbelly Sandwich Shop at 4459 Willard Avenue in the Village of Friendship Heights. I say this because the sign went up seven or eight weeks ago, and the inside is still not very far along.
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8:30am just do you...don't worry so much about what Robert is doing. Focus on your blog.
If Dyer's troll put the same time and efforts to something productive (instead of trolling Dyer), he'd likely have cured cancer, solved homelessness and have dozens of dental patents by now.
The comments that precede this one makes my case. What an utter waste of time on the part of the troll. Will he come forward on what he believes Dyer has done to him personally that caused so much pain? He isn't ready to...yet.
2:14 PM odd someone says freeloading pizza eater and you immediately respond within mintues and say "stop talking about me". No one mentioned you. Calm down.
4:10: The power to deliver a important message countywide without annoying people with news they don't need every other day of the week by having separate websites for each area.
A large construction barricade has been built on Bethesda Lane, for the new Hawker’s Asian Street Food. From what I’ve read online at other locations at least, the line to get in can be as much as 2 hours on Friday and Saturday evenings. Downtown hasn’t had a new high demand restaurant like this in awhile.
Regarding the CCT tunnel, ‘You can give your feedback on this, and the design of the project, at Wednesday night's meeting”” but they are not apparently welcome on this site.
I agree the country should have linked the cost of the tunnel to the minor masterplan amendment, but at this point in time I would like to raise another question. Do we really need a tunnel?
The county is about to install a very nice surface route with a separated bike path that will connect the CCT at Ourisman all the way to Elm Park and the newly extended CCT that will be ead6 of downtown. This separated bike path will start on the south side of Bethesda Avenue in front of Pottery Barn, then cross the intersection diagonally with a special ”all stop” signal for the bike path. It will the run on the north side of Bethesda Avenue and cross Wisconsin in a second ”all stop” signal.
These systems are designed to create very safe protected and signal protected paths for bike to cross two very busy intersections. In this time of fiscal stress, do we really need a second separate path under Wisconsin, in a very expensive tunnel. The grade is predicted to be quite steep, and may include a few curves that limit visibility. As I recall the old tunnel was a bit scary for some folks, being a bit isolated.
I know that the portion under the Apex building is already constructed, but I really wonder why we need two parallel paths to cross Wisconsin. The proposed tunnel would not eliminate the Bethesda Avenue/Woodmont Avenue crossing, so if traffic can be safely crossed there, why not assume the Wisconsin crossing at grade would be adequate, if not superior to an expensive sloping, curving and perhaps intimidating tunnel?
If even a portion of the cost of a tunnel could be applied to an even better surface route, would we all be better off? If the surface path is not ideal, maybe improve it further with a more substantial barrier, better landscaping, nicer bike crossing signals, better pedestrian/bike lane lighting, more creative paving, or better signage. Certainly cheaper than the tunnel cost. Let the developer repurpose the already constructed portion of the tunnel as a linear bike storage facility, and repurpose the proposed two level bike parking garage as a nice retail space, maybe even a big bike store that would face the Capital Crescent Civic Green.
7:01: I think the primary two issues are that people feel safer not having to cross 355, and secondly, the surface route will force cyclists to make several additional stops.
Isn't the CCT/Purple Line tunnel under a state highway, not a county road, and not private (i.e. "developer") property?
Also, it's disappointing to see that the NIMBYs of Westbard were already doing their dirty work several decades ago when they blocked that Hechinger's.
"Alas, there's no indication the parking lot [at Kenwood Station} will get any updates. It shares the title of Most Frustrating Parking Facility in Bethesda with Trader Joe's - or at least the ones people talk about most often."
So...why not offer suggestions on how that parking lot could be improved? Light a candle instead of perpetually cursing the darkness.
I guess it comes down to the question of safety. An inexperienced bike rider would likely prefer a slower, but more level pathway, even if it required two stops to wait for a protected crossing signal. These inexperienced rides might also be a bit intimidated in an underground tunnel with curves and fast moving spandex clad bike commuters who would not mind a bit of grade elevation if they don’t have to stop.
Having both a tunnel and a surface trail would be great, but very expensive and currently unfunded. My only thought was to make sure the surface route is as good as it can be, even if they need to spend a few bucks more, in lieu of the much more expensive tunnel option. I bet the developer might even pay the county to enhance the surface route if required, if it meant they could repurpose the 250 bike parking garage as retail space and use the already built tunnel for bike parking. They might need to add a fire exit stair near Wisconsin, but would gain lots of retail space with very tall ceilings, facing the new Civic Green.
On the other hand, we can always build the tunnel in the future. I predict that when the CCT is opened to Silver Spring, the new Red Line entrance, Purple Line Station and perhaps the Bethesda Market and new underground county parking deck are all built, this area will get much more bike traffic.
Bar Louie closed nation-wide. I am no fan of the MoCo establishment, and I think Elrich is utterly inempt and should be recalled from office, but the Bar Louie closing isn't really their fault.. this time.
David Heyman: "Why are comments turned off on the blog? That's the best part."
Robert Dyer at Bethesda Row: "They won't be closed permanently. The troll is in a manic phase, as anyone following that can attest. Refreshing every 30 seconds all day long, reposting a dozen deleted comments. Either paid, insane, or both."
Why is Ourisman allowed to park a Jeep in the public right of way? The county needs to tow it and charge them to recover the vehicle. The Acura dealership does the same thing. Somehow they both seem to think they own the sidewalk in front of their premise.
Also, his article about the closure of the eastern Red Line this weekend still gives the incorrect name for the Metro station between Fort Totten and Silver Spring.
8:12: LOL - I was hoping you would let this go so I wouldn't have to embarrass you any further, but you asked for it.
In the lifetime of Metro in MoCo, I've never heard anyone refer to the "Takoma Metro Station." Maybe in DC, but not here, where it is commonly referred to as the Takoma Park Metro station. As a lifelong resident who actually used the station when attending classes at the beautiful Takoma Park campus of Montgomery College, I can once again issue a Carpetbagger Alert for a clear carpetbagger such as you.
The Takoma Metro station is not in the beautiful city of Takoma Park in vivibund Montgomery County. It is in the Takoma neighborhood of the District of Columbia, just west of Eastern Avenue.
I don't know what random weirdos you talked to as you were walking to and from your classes at Montgomery College*, but the name of the station has always been "Takoma", alone. On the Metro train announcements. On the system maps. On the Metrobus and Ride-On maps and schedules.
Why don't you just admit you made a mistake, instead of doubling-down and gaslighting?
8:22: I didn't make a mistake. Understandably you're now moving the goalposts from what you mistakenly think MoCo residents call it, to the actual address. Understandable from a desperate carpetbagger trying to change Montgomery County from the outside.
Dyer doesn't even understand what the phrase "moving the goalposts" actually means.
Moving the goalposts is an informal fallacy in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other (often greater) evidence is demanded. That is, after an attempt has been made to score a goal, the goalposts are moved to exclude the attempt. The problem with changing the rules of the game is that the meaning of the result is changed, too.
In the case of the Metro station between Fort Totten and Takoma, a reader pointed out that the name of this station is "Takoma" rather than "Takoma Park" as blogger Robert Dyer had written, incorrectly, on his "East County" blog a few days ago. Pointing out the correct name of the station is hardly "moving the goalposts".
It is in fact Robert Dyer who is making the logical fallacy, by citing imaginary "MoCo residents" to back up his erroneous claim about the station name.
Robert - Would you please turn the comments back on? I understand your intentions, but we miss them. Besides your regular trolls, there are also regular readers and commentors. There are occasional bits and pieces of useful knowledge and humor amongst the regular inane chatter of your trolls. But they, like us, are a piece of this community. A community that you built, that you provide, for us miscreants and misfits. And we're thankful for that. So, I ask for all of us; Please turn the comments back on. Please let us express ourselves in a chronological and topical manner again. And turn the dang comments back on! Thank you
9:57: It's not even clear that you understand the full meaning of "moving the goalposts" from that simplistic definition. But even by your definition, you absolutely were moving the goalposts.
The original argument was about what you, as a carpetbagger, thought Montgomery County natives call the Takoma Metro station. Just as a tourist would use a travel guide as reference, you went with the official title. Alas, you were wrong, just as a MoCo limousine liberal would mispronounce "Stanton" in Virginia.
Caught as a carpetbagger, you then "demanded greater evidence," moving the argument to the specific street address of the station - totally irrelevant to what MoCo natives call the station.
Here's a definition that applies to you:
Carpetbagger (noun) - Outsider opportunists looking to exploit and profit from a region's misfortunes; a person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist.
I've lived my entire life in Montgomery County and I've never heard the Takoma Metro station called by any other name until I saw Dyer's article last week.
Robbie, being a "lifelong resident" hardly makes you unique among the residents of our County. But calling all the other residents "Carpetbaggers" is not a good strategy for winning elections.
7:11: Carpetbaggers are by definition up to no good, so the term does not apply to "all the other residents," just the carpetbaggers. The fact that I am a lifelong resident has proven to infuriate you to no end, most likely because you are a carpetbagger.
1:52: The invites were prior to the opening, *****. It happens increasingly as business owners are strongarmed privately by competitors not to invite me. I used to be invited to every opening except the occasional business that still uses 1973-era PR firms that only consider print or TV as "media." The problem is, they miss out on my audience knowing about their business. Not very smart. This has been going on for several years now, and your job is simply to attempt to gaslight about it. You know what's going on, *****. You just got served, Boy Friday.
One person posting nasty comments under different aliases does not equal an audience of several thousand. In fact, readers think the MoCo cartel-employed troll is a total nutjob, and they are correct in their assessment.
I just want to see you call people pieces of garbage in person. Like a debate between you and Hans. Now that should earn you thousands of votes. Are you brave enough?
5:34: A very ironic comment, considering that Hans Riemer was too scared to show up for the final debate in 2014, and never had the guts to debate in 2018. In fact, he and his running mates forced civic associations to cancel debates they had scheduled.
"Brave enough?" LOL - the Council is running scared and won't debate. I will debate these clowns anytime, anywhere.
Look at the MyMCMedia debate from 2014 on YouTube, especially the last part, and you will see that I handily beat Riemer and George Leventhal in that televised forum. No wonder they didn't show up for the one after that in Olney!
5:17: Any elevated track can be described as a trestle, dumbass. Elevated portions of the Glen Echo streetcar line are today still referred to as trestles. A bridge connects track over a gap. This elevated Purple Line track is most certainly not a bridge. You know as much about engineering as you do about self checkout machines, Einstein.
Um, no, Dumbass. "Trestle" refers specifically to a type of structure built of wood, and wood alone.
There are no "elevated portions" of the "Glen Echo streetcar line" (actually Cabin Jon streetcar line", not "Glen Echo streetcar line"), because it ran at surface level. Short railroad bridges and viaducts are not "elevated railroads".
10:00: LOL, you once again prove to be the ultimate carpetbagger and ultimate dumbass. Trestles can be made of anything. I am a rail transportation expert, unlike you and your heroes on the corrupt County Council.
The Glen Echo streetcar has many trestle sections, some of which remain and are crumbling in the woods on the Maryland side of the route. There were elevated sections between Georgetown University and what is now the Montessori School of Washington on the other side of Foxhall Road. I know because I rode under one in a car hundreds of times, Saul. You were living in some out-of-state hellhole at that time, and have no clue about the Glen Echo streetcar.
The streetcar did not terminate at Glen Echo. It terminated at the south end of the Cabin John Bridge. People who were actually born here recognize the gravelly area opposite the west end of Wilson Lane at MacArthur Boulevard. Thus, it is named the "Cabin John streetcar line".
"Elevated" has a specific meaning when referring to railroads - meaning running on a continuous aerial structure along and over a street. The Silver Line running through Tysons Corner is an example of an elevated line. Rail lines running on the surface, on embankments in private right-of-way, or across short bridges do not meet this definition.
Also, the bridge on the Cabin John Line at Foundry Creek (M Street at the southwest corner of the Georgetown University campus) is a steel bridge, not a "trestle". "Trestle" is not a synonym for "rail bridge". It refers to a specific type of wooden structure.
7:00: All aboard the Carpetbagger Express!! Obviously, you weren't born here, because the streetcar did indeed terminate at Glen Echo. It then simply turned around via a loop track prior to the bridge you refer to.
You also obviously are not familiar with the topography of the streetcar line. Indeed, there are elevated sections, including those that remain in the woods past Glen Echo. You are also 100% wrong that a trestle is only a wooden structure. The CCT uses a metal trestle by Arizona Avenue that is called a...trestle!
I've not only lived here my whole life, but am an expert on railroads, and your arguments are just factually and empirically wrong.
You've taken more pratfalls on this page than Chevy Chase. Please call it quits before you make a total fool of yourself again.
"All aboard the Carpetbagger Express!! Obviously, you weren't born here, because the streetcar did indeed terminate at Glen Echo. It then simply turned around via a loop track prior to the bridge you refer to."
So what you're saying is that the streetcar line "terminated" at Glen Echo, then continued another mile in the same direction before turning around at the east end of the Cabin John Bridge, then made the return trip.
Do you understand what the word "terminate" actually means?
Dyer @ 7:15 AM - No revenue service at all on the entire 2-mile round trip from Glen Echo to the turnaround loop at Cabin John, and back, for every single trip? That seems very unlikely.
"I do recall being pointedly snubbed for the media preview of this restaurant in 2013, an event attended by Bobby Flay himself. Not very smart to not promote your restaurant to thousands of readers of the leading source for Bethesda restaurant news at launch time. Always a bad way to enter a market in the new media age."
5:53: It is definitely delusional to exclude the most-read Bethesda dining news source in the year 2013, not 1973. Embarrassing, also. Some businesses are stupid enough to continue making that mistake today.
What sort of blithering nonsense is Montgomery County’s favorite White Nationalism wannabe incel blathering about now? Really Robert the whole town is laughing at you. You act all tough on here but all anybody has to do is look at you on YouTube and know you are a wussy little sod.
4:14: I'm out here in the open using my real name - you're cowering in a dark room anonymously, and in no position to criticize anyone. You are Montgomery County's favorite Antifa Mao wannabe.
7:29: If I was embarrassed, I would have. I'm not embarrassed stating facts, which is neither support nor condemnation, but simply the facts. The topic has nothing to do with the articles you keep pasting them onto.
You should be embarrassed for defending an Antifa/Deep State political operation that resulted in injury and death, and that to this day has never debriefed the public on the cause of the State Police helicopter crash that killed two state troopers that day nor why Terry McAuliffe and his buddies in Charlottesville intentionally left streets open - complete opposite of standard event procedures - to facilitate what happened.
I'll never be embarrassed to defend Constitutional and human rights, both of which were violated by Virginia elected officials that day.
THIS is what Dyer is trying to blame on then-Governor Terry McAuliffe and "an Antifa/Deep State political operation".
"At around 1:45 p.m. on August 12, 2017, self-identified white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) away from the rally site, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 other people. Fields fled the scene in his car but was arrested soon afterward; he was tried and convicted in Virginia state court of first-degree murder, malicious wounding, and other crimes in 2018, with the jury recommending a sentence of life imprisonment plus 419 years. The following year, Fields pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes in a plea agreement to avoid the death penalty in this trial."
2:04 PM You're lying because you don't have access to Dyer's analytics. I'm enjoying the daily news without your repetitive comments. I can always visit this thread when I want a dose of your negativity and madness :)
9:06: No, you don't have any quote where I defend that. The 1st Amendment doesn't permit violence. It does permit freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, no matter whether the majority approves of the people or content in either case. Westboro Church, KKK, Montgomery County Council, Communist Party - it doesn't matter who or what, they still get to assemble and meet.
Are you going on the record as opposed to the 1st Amendment? That makes you sound crazy, not me.
Who is responsible for the violence is McAuliffe et al in elected office, who told police to stand down intentionally, allow violent altercations, and left streets open to vehicles during a massive pedestrian event. Even in Montgomery County for far smaller events, police regularly close and barricade streets to vehicles. You know that full well. Virginia's "progressive" Neo-Commies have yet to be held accountable for their active role in the serious injuries and death that resulted from their deliberate actions in government office.
Robert Dyer: "Who is responsible for the violence is McAuliffe et al in elected office, who told police to stand down intentionally, allow violent altercations, and left streets open to vehicles during a massive pedestrian event. Virginia's 'progressive' Neo-Commies have yet to be held accountable for their active role in the serious injuries and death that resulted from their deliberate actions in government office."
Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world. It is normally contrasted to natural forces, which are causes involving only unthinking deterministic processes.
"On August 12, 2017, a car was deliberately driven into a crowd of people who had been peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one and injuring 28. The driver of the car, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., had driven from Ohio to attend the rally. Fields previously espoused neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs. He was convicted in a state court of hit and run, the first-degree murder of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, and eight counts of malicious wounding, and sentenced to life in prison with an additional 419 years in July 2019. He also pled guilty to 29 of 30 federal hate crime charges to avoid the death penalty, which also resulted in another life sentence handed down in June 2019."
Via the human agency of McAuliffe and Charlottesville leaders who intentionally and willfully left roadways open. I note that the media has conveniently not sought, nor has the CIA released as they now regularly and illegally do via leaks, the full phone conversations and electronic communications of all of the relevant elected officials in the weeks and days prior to the Unite the Right event.
You can post the resume and factoids about a killer paroled from prison, but the governor who let him out will still be guilty of the "human agency" that allowed him to kill again. Same goes in Charlottesville, Boy Friday. Anyone with half a functioning brain closes off streets to auto traffic during major crowd events. We do this all the time in Montgomery County, and you know that.
Oh shut up already Robert. Time for you to take a break from your cute little blog, have mommy make you breakfast and, then go take a nap. You are so grumpy. Night night little incel boy.
Funny how your article on Metro in Virginia omits this week's news that the opening of the second phase of the Silver Line - which will give Virginians a direct connection to Dulles Airport for the first time - has been delayed for at least a year, possibly much longer.
Also, I note that your time-stamps for today's article - which is the only news on all four blogs of "Suburban News Network" - is incorrect. Even accounting for the fact that the Bethesda blog's clock is 3 hours behind lifelong-Bethesda-resident time, the article was posted well after 9:00 AM Eastern, yet all four have the time-stamp of "8:00 AM" ("5:00 AM" for the Bethesda blog).
It wasn't a self-driving Prius. One of your racist buddies deliberately drove straight into that crowd. No one in the Virginia or Charlottesville governments forced him or even encouraged him in any way to do that.
And thanks for showing that you don't have the slightest understanding of what the term "human agency" actually means, in spite of having it explained to you in the comment immediately preceding.
You just mindlessly copy and paste, and parrot things other people say and write, without any understanding of what you are saying or doing.
@ 7:26 AM - It's also funny how Dyer's article completely omits mention of the recent discussion of proposals to build a monorail along I-270 from Shady Grove to Frederick.
"Construction of equally-long-delayed new Potomac River crossing to Dulles Airport with trackbed for future Red Line extension to Silver Line in median, as a toll facility built by a private company"
Why would the Red Line go up from Metro Center to Shady Grove and beyond to Clarksburg?, then go all the way back down and over to Dulles? That would be a really dumb route, especially if it's also going to Clarksburg. Going from Metro Center to Dulles would be 60 miles one-way, not just dumb but a logistical nightmare.
Do you ever actually think things through before you write them?
8:16: It wouldn't go up to Clarksburg to cross - I-370 is in Gaithersburg, not Clarksburg.
7:33: I'm not opposed to it. It doesn't seem as walker-friendly as one that goes right to the Lakeforest Mall site, but would be within walking distance.
"-Extending the Red Line to Clarksburg, including options for at-grade, elevated and cut-and-cover underground segments
"-Construction of equally-long-delayed new Potomac River crossing to Dulles Airport with trackbed for future Red Line extension to Silver Line in median, as a toll facility built by a private company"
Let's be optimistic and assume the Purple Line and BRT fill a feed and alleviate some congestion in those corridors.
The biggest problem is still I-270 to the bridge, which has been flashing red for a couple of decades at least. Our elected officials continue to put the figurative piece of masking tape over the dashboard warning light. Meanwhile Virginia seems to be willing to make the tough decisions for short term pain and longer term positive outcomes.
And the Silver Line is quite successful- all of those corporate HQs like Capital One certainly appreciate the new Metro stations steps from their doors. Tysons is being transformed while White Flint has stalled out (except for Pike & Rose). We didn't get the "muscular" urban White Flint that our council promised.
-The old Comsat site is adjacent to I-270 but well out of the walkshed of MD 355.
-Lakeforest Mall is out of the walkshed of I-270 and most of the site is even outside of the walkshed of MD 355.
-The fairgrounds are within the walkshed of both MD 355 and I-270, but I'm not sure why you want to redevelop it. Where do you propose to hold the annual Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, a beloved tradition for over a century for lifelong residents?
-You can't really design a route that would directly serve all three sites.
How come Dyer hasn't posted his article about the proposed tax changes on the Bethesda blog? He posted it on all of the other blogs in the "Network". [Timestamp 9:40 AM EST, 6:40 AM Dyer Time]
"Last year, Councilmember Evan Glass (D - At-Large) proposed a "teardown tax," also known as a "McMansion tax." It would have taxed new construction homes that replaced existing homes, and then place an excise tax on the square footage added. The proposal was blasted by homebuilders, many of whom would have been forced out of business by the new taxes. Local media did their darndest to promote Glass and his tax, but rarely told the public that he did not even have the votes on the Council to pass it."
That's funny, I can't find any record of this in this blog. Surely Dyer would have reported it at the time.
6:46: Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it's not there. The Google Blogger search tool is often useless to find something even I'm looking for. But what a weird approach to the debate, which indicates you cannot argue on the facts of the issue.
‘Chase Trust building is arguably the most-recognized modern building in downtown Bethesda’
Based on what data? A survey of just you? Not like you went around asking people for their input. You just pull these stats out of thin air? Such hyperbole Robert makes you look stupid and down right sad You have no job or friends and I can’t see people on the street wanting to talk to you
5:25: No they haven't, dumbass. And if they had, their published date would be incorrect.
Not only can you not demolish without permits in hand, which haven't been issued, but someone actually working on the project confirmed rumors that the demolition has been delayed.
"Considering that the Beltway and I-270 are where a great number of drivers are coming from in the morning, and trying to reach in the evening, this is going to create an incredible bottleneck. Anyone who drives the road during rush hours is aware of just how bad the traffic jams are now."
Not really. The most congested area of Old Georgetown Road is to the north, between Grosvenor Lane and I-270. This stretch isn't that bad, even in rush hours. Wisconsin Avenue is far worse.
Old Georgetown Road south of McKinley Street has always been two lanes each way, and the bottleneck at the transition there isn't really that bad. Although it seems weird that they are leaving the part of Old Georgetown Road between McKinley Street and Cedar Lane as three lanes each way. Or maybe that's because there is already that very nice path along the NIH campus.
7:12: First actual report from the scene - nobody else had the official statement of the closure from the company posted in the window. First report of BWW temporary closure. #scooped Many have taken note that you reverted to using the term "MCS" the same day as the Twitter account did. You're wasting time when you still have to pick up Hans' dry cleaning and tidy up the Council office, fat boy.
2:36: If I was bad at it, the MoCo Cartel wouldn't have had to create an Astro-Turf "Montgomery County press corps" since 2012 to try to knock me off. And you wouldn't be getting paid pizza money to troll me as part of your Astro-Turf online work for the cartel, either. Yet I'm still publishing daily, so it appears you are the ones who are "really bad at it."
12:31: If you were the recommended weight for your height, you wouldn't be in a dark room trolling local news websites 24/7.
So tell us Robert all about the COVID 19 virus. You are the third most smart on the subject after Trump and Pence.
Our Leader tells us this isn’t serious and that it will be gone by April. I mean if he says it is hoax then that must be true be because un like Obama Trump never lies.
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8:30am just do you...don't worry so much about what Robert is doing. Focus on your blog.
Another store is about to close in The Collection.
And Montgomery Mall, too.
Trust me. No one wants potbelly there. I know many people in Friendship Heights.
If Dyer's troll put the same time and efforts to something productive (instead of trolling Dyer), he'd likely have cured cancer, solved homelessness and have dozens of dental patents by now.
You duplicated the same post in four blogs and disabled comments. Why?
5:38: That's the power of the Suburban News Network.
Looking forward to Potbelly in this part of town!
John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, who invented the sandwich, has deep MoCo roots as he is a proud graduate of Quince Orchard High. Class of '67.
Dyer is literally the only journalist in MoCo was will speak truth to power and cover our local government critically.
If there is another, please let me know so I can read them as well.
If Dyer is so irrelevant, has one reader, total failure, etc.
What does that say about the man who has dedicated so much time trying to stop Dyer?
lol
8:09 AM You're getting damn close to making a threat right there. Fair warning!
8:20 AM Just giving some free legal advice, my friend.
Imagine spending hours every day trying to disrupt and insult a man you've never met or know.
I could understand if Dyer did something to you personally, but otherwise it's like why spend the time and energy?
Weird stuff...
@ 11:00 AM - not just in Montgomery Mall, but in The Collection as well. More proof that "the ultra-rich are abandoning Montgomery County".
The comments that precede this one makes my case. What an utter waste of time on the part of the troll. Will he come forward on what he believes Dyer has done to him personally that caused so much pain? He isn't ready to...yet.
1:13 PM You'll be filling box after box of free pizza at the opening
Pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a week....gratis :)
The dental patents. Don't forget the dental patents.
"Marriott spox"
"sold for one dollar"
"Sears was furious"
"Imagine spending..."
2:14 PM odd someone says freeloading pizza eater and you immediately respond within mintues and say "stop talking about me". No one mentioned you. Calm down.
What power is there is cutting and pasting from one blog to the next?
4:10: The power to deliver a important message countywide without annoying people with news they don't need every other day of the week by having separate websites for each area.
Why should YOU determine what news people need to see?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up smoking.
Bergs will not demolish us.
Dyer has put his troll into a "time out"!
Act like a child and you'll be treated as one.
Not being able comment, I recommend the troll finds a hobby or maybe a read a book.
A large construction barricade has been built on Bethesda Lane, for the new Hawker’s Asian Street Food. From what I’ve read online at other locations at least, the line to get in can be as much as 2 hours on Friday and Saturday evenings. Downtown hasn’t had a new high demand restaurant like this in awhile.
Archived! Thanks! :)
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RIP Kobe Bryant. Proud Quince Orchard grad 1996.
Never went to that high school or any other in this area.
Looking forward to Road saying “looking forward”
All heil Roald
Since when did you not want to annoy people?
So did Jackie O.
Regarding the CCT tunnel, ‘You can give your feedback on this, and the design of the project, at Wednesday night's meeting”” but they are not apparently welcome on this site.
I agree the country should have linked the cost of the tunnel to the minor masterplan amendment, but at this point in time I would like to raise another question. Do we really need a tunnel?
The county is about to install a very nice surface route with a separated bike path that will connect the CCT at Ourisman all the way to Elm Park and the newly extended CCT that will be ead6 of downtown. This separated bike path will start on the south side of Bethesda Avenue in front of Pottery Barn, then cross the intersection diagonally with a special ”all stop” signal for the bike path. It will the run on the north side of Bethesda Avenue and cross Wisconsin in a second ”all stop” signal.
These systems are designed to create very safe protected and signal protected paths for bike to cross two very busy intersections. In this time of fiscal stress, do we really need a second separate path under Wisconsin, in a very expensive tunnel. The grade is predicted to be quite steep, and may include a few curves that limit visibility. As I recall the old tunnel was a bit scary for some folks, being a bit isolated.
I know that the portion under the Apex building is already constructed, but I really wonder why we need two parallel paths to cross Wisconsin. The proposed tunnel would not eliminate the Bethesda Avenue/Woodmont Avenue crossing, so if traffic can be safely crossed there, why not assume the Wisconsin crossing at grade would be adequate, if not superior to an expensive sloping, curving and perhaps intimidating tunnel?
If even a portion of the cost of a tunnel could be applied to an even better surface route, would we all be better off? If the surface path is not ideal, maybe improve it further with a more substantial barrier, better landscaping, nicer bike crossing signals, better pedestrian/bike lane lighting, more creative paving, or better signage. Certainly cheaper than the tunnel cost. Let the developer repurpose the already constructed portion of the tunnel as a linear bike storage facility, and repurpose the proposed two level bike parking garage as a nice retail space, maybe even a big bike store that would face the Capital Crescent Civic Green.
7:01: I think the primary two issues are that people feel safer not having to cross 355, and secondly, the surface route will force cyclists to make several additional stops.
Isn't the CCT/Purple Line tunnel under a state highway, not a county road, and not private (i.e. "developer") property?
Also, it's disappointing to see that the NIMBYs of Westbard were already doing their dirty work several decades ago when they blocked that Hechinger's.
"Alas, there's no indication the parking lot [at Kenwood Station} will get any updates. It shares the title of Most Frustrating Parking Facility in Bethesda with Trader Joe's - or at least the ones people talk about most often."
So...why not offer suggestions on how that parking lot could be improved? Light a candle instead of perpetually cursing the darkness.
I guess it comes down to the question of safety. An inexperienced bike rider would likely prefer a slower, but more level pathway, even if it required two stops to wait for a protected crossing signal. These inexperienced rides might also be a bit intimidated in an underground tunnel with curves and fast moving spandex clad bike commuters who would not mind a bit of grade elevation if they don’t have to stop.
Having both a tunnel and a surface trail would be great, but very expensive and currently unfunded. My only thought was to make sure the surface route is as good as it can be, even if they need to spend a few bucks more, in lieu of the much more expensive tunnel option. I bet the developer might even pay the county to enhance the surface route if required, if it meant they could repurpose the 250 bike parking garage as retail space and use the already built tunnel for bike parking. They might need to add a fire exit stair near Wisconsin, but would gain lots of retail space with very tall ceilings, facing the new Civic Green.
On the other hand, we can always build the tunnel in the future. I predict that when the CCT is opened to Silver Spring, the new Red Line entrance, Purple Line Station and perhaps the Bethesda Market and new underground county parking deck are all built, this area will get much more bike traffic.
8:22 AM Dyer has a nice eulogy of the Rockville and Wheaton locations on the MoCo side :)
The Wheaton closure hurts the most since it paired well the adjacent, new AMC theater. Wheaton Plaza needed a decent sit down restaurant.
Bar Louie closed nation-wide. I am no fan of the MoCo establishment, and I think Elrich is utterly inempt and should be recalled from office, but the Bar Louie closing isn't really their fault.. this time.
@ 9:48 AM - What's funny is that Fat Communist NIMBY Marc Elrich is Robert Dyer's very favorite local official.
Robbie on his Facebook page:
David Heyman: "Why are comments turned off on the blog? That's the best part."
Robert Dyer at Bethesda Row: "They won't be closed permanently. The troll is in a manic phase, as anyone following that can attest. Refreshing every 30 seconds all day long, reposting a dozen deleted comments. Either paid, insane, or both."
My comment about not being able to comment was deleted. Hilarious!
A commenter over at "The Other Plaice" noted that Bar Louie in Wheaton was where Elrich held his victory celebration after he won the primary.
#EverythingElrichTouchesDies
#EETD
7:37 PM Yes, we'd be much better off with a developer hack stooge as County Exec. who accomplished zero as councilwoman for over a decade.
Thankfully, with term limits, we will have less folks planning to die holding the same seat for generations.
I absolutely agree. Take that feauture away entirely. I enjoy seeing the stuff that BB doesn't pick up but gotta get used to no comments.
Why is Ourisman allowed to park a Jeep in the public right of way? The county needs to tow it and charge them to recover the vehicle. The Acura dealership does the same thing. Somehow they both seem to think they own the sidewalk in front of their premise.
Also, his article about the closure of the eastern Red Line this weekend still gives the incorrect name for the Metro station between Fort Totten and Silver Spring.
8:12: LOL - I was hoping you would let this go so I wouldn't have to embarrass you any further, but you asked for it.
In the lifetime of Metro in MoCo, I've never heard anyone refer to the "Takoma Metro Station." Maybe in DC, but not here, where it is commonly referred to as the Takoma Park Metro station. As a lifelong resident who actually used the station when attending classes at the beautiful Takoma Park campus of Montgomery College, I can once again issue a Carpetbagger Alert for a clear carpetbagger such as you.
The Takoma Metro station is not in the beautiful city of Takoma Park in vivibund Montgomery County. It is in the Takoma neighborhood of the District of Columbia, just west of Eastern Avenue.
I don't know what random weirdos you talked to as you were walking to and from your classes at Montgomery College*, but the name of the station has always been "Takoma", alone. On the Metro train announcements. On the system maps. On the Metrobus and Ride-On maps and schedules.
Why don't you just admit you made a mistake, instead of doubling-down and gaslighting?
*I thought you were a UMCP grad?
8:22: I didn't make a mistake. Understandably you're now moving the goalposts from what you mistakenly think MoCo residents call it, to the actual address. Understandable from a desperate carpetbagger trying to change Montgomery County from the outside.
Dyer doesn't even understand what the phrase "moving the goalposts" actually means.
Moving the goalposts is an informal fallacy in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other (often greater) evidence is demanded. That is, after an attempt has been made to score a goal, the goalposts are moved to exclude the attempt. The problem with changing the rules of the game is that the meaning of the result is changed, too.
In the case of the Metro station between Fort Totten and Takoma, a reader pointed out that the name of this station is "Takoma" rather than "Takoma Park" as blogger Robert Dyer had written, incorrectly, on his "East County" blog a few days ago. Pointing out the correct name of the station is hardly "moving the goalposts".
It is in fact Robert Dyer who is making the logical fallacy, by citing imaginary "MoCo residents" to back up his erroneous claim about the station name.
https://www.wmata.com/rider-guide/stations/takoma.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoma_station
Robert -
Would you please turn the comments back on? I understand your intentions, but we miss them. Besides your regular trolls, there are also regular readers and commentors. There are occasional bits and pieces of useful knowledge and humor amongst the regular inane chatter of your trolls. But they, like us, are a piece of this community. A community that you built, that you provide, for us miscreants and misfits. And we're thankful for that. So, I ask for all of us; Please turn the comments back on. Please let us express ourselves in a chronological and topical manner again. And turn the dang comments back on! Thank you
9:57: It's not even clear that you understand the full meaning of "moving the goalposts" from that simplistic definition. But even by your definition, you absolutely were moving the goalposts.
The original argument was about what you, as a carpetbagger, thought Montgomery County natives call the Takoma Metro station. Just as a tourist would use a travel guide as reference, you went with the official title. Alas, you were wrong, just as a MoCo limousine liberal would mispronounce "Stanton" in Virginia.
Caught as a carpetbagger, you then "demanded greater evidence," moving the argument to the specific street address of the station - totally irrelevant to what MoCo natives call the station.
Here's a definition that applies to you:
Carpetbagger (noun) - Outsider opportunists looking to exploit and profit from a region's misfortunes; a person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist.
I've lived my entire life in Montgomery County and I've never heard the Takoma Metro station called by any other name until I saw Dyer's article last week.
LOL - carpetbaggers of the world unite!!!
Robbie, being a "lifelong resident" hardly makes you unique among the residents of our County. But calling all the other residents "Carpetbaggers" is not a good strategy for winning elections.
7:11: Carpetbaggers are by definition up to no good, so the term does not apply to "all the other residents," just the carpetbaggers. The fact that I am a lifelong resident has proven to infuriate you to no end, most likely because you are a carpetbagger.
Why do you need an invitation to go to a restaurant that opened to the public two days ago?
1:52: The invites were prior to the opening, *****. It happens increasingly as business owners are strongarmed privately by competitors not to invite me. I used to be invited to every opening except the occasional business that still uses 1973-era PR firms that only consider print or TV as "media." The problem is, they miss out on my audience knowing about their business. Not very smart. This has been going on for several years now, and your job is simply to attempt to gaslight about it. You know what's going on, *****. You just got served, Boy Friday.
I’ve read the comments. Your audience hates you
One person posting nasty comments under different aliases does not equal an audience of several thousand. In fact, readers think the MoCo cartel-employed troll is a total nutjob, and they are correct in their assessment.
Hey Bob, I miss kvetching with everyone in the recent posts. When are comments coming back on?
So much exciting news about Montgomery Mall. New stores! New restaurants! Looking forward to Robert reporting the news first!
"Around 2:00 PM, a street lamp on Woodmont Avenue near Old Georgetown Road fell onto a vehicle,"
"Reported by Robert Dyer at 5:00 AM"
8:00 AM local time. Why did it take you 18 hours to report this?
Looks like someone is #Triggered. I've never seen other local journalists call their commenters "a piece of garbage".
Piece of garbage
Traffic islands will not replace us
I just want to see you call people pieces of garbage in person. Like a debate between you and Hans. Now that should earn you thousands of votes.
Are you brave enough?
I greatly enjoy reading this blog and appreciate the effort Mr. Dyer puts in to keeping the community informed. - local engineering firm employee
5:34: A very ironic comment, considering that Hans Riemer was too scared to show up for the final debate in 2014, and never had the guts to debate in 2018. In fact, he and his running mates forced civic associations to cancel debates they had scheduled.
"Brave enough?" LOL - the Council is running scared and won't debate. I will debate these clowns anytime, anywhere.
Look at the MyMCMedia debate from 2014 on YouTube, especially the last part, and you will see that I handily beat Riemer and George Leventhal in that televised forum. No wonder they didn't show up for the one after that in Olney!
Found it...no thanks to Dyer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf8qdfj6WMY&feature=youtu.be&t=5m13s
Dyer for Führer
On the East County blog:
"The elevated track for the future Purple Line at the Silver Spring Transit Center is beginning to resemble an actual trestle."
Nope. It is not a "trestle". It is a steel beam bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trestle_bridge
Try learning what words actually mean, before you use them in print.
http://robertdyer.blogspot.com/2018/09/signs-lit-for-anthropologie-co-and.html
5:17: Any elevated track can be described as a trestle, dumbass. Elevated portions of the Glen Echo streetcar line are today still referred to as trestles. A bridge connects track over a gap. This elevated Purple Line track is most certainly not a bridge. You know as much about engineering as you do about self checkout machines, Einstein.
Um, no, Dumbass. "Trestle" refers specifically to a type of structure built of wood, and wood alone.
There are no "elevated portions" of the "Glen Echo streetcar line" (actually Cabin Jon streetcar line", not "Glen Echo streetcar line"), because it ran at surface level. Short railroad bridges and viaducts are not "elevated railroads".
You are such a Carpetbagger Retard, Dyer.
10:00: LOL, you once again prove to be the ultimate carpetbagger and ultimate dumbass. Trestles can be made of anything. I am a rail transportation expert, unlike you and your heroes on the corrupt County Council.
The Glen Echo streetcar has many trestle sections, some of which remain and are crumbling in the woods on the Maryland side of the route. There were elevated sections between Georgetown University and what is now the Montessori School of Washington on the other side of Foxhall Road. I know because I rode under one in a car hundreds of times, Saul. You were living in some out-of-state hellhole at that time, and have no clue about the Glen Echo streetcar.
The streetcar did not terminate at Glen Echo. It terminated at the south end of the Cabin John Bridge. People who were actually born here recognize the gravelly area opposite the west end of Wilson Lane at MacArthur Boulevard. Thus, it is named the "Cabin John streetcar line".
"Elevated" has a specific meaning when referring to railroads - meaning running on a continuous aerial structure along and over a street. The Silver Line running through Tysons Corner is an example of an elevated line. Rail lines running on the surface, on embankments in private right-of-way, or across short bridges do not meet this definition.
Also, the bridge on the Cabin John Line at Foundry Creek (M Street at the southwest corner of the Georgetown University campus) is a steel bridge, not a "trestle". "Trestle" is not a synonym for "rail bridge". It refers to a specific type of wooden structure.
7:00: All aboard the Carpetbagger Express!! Obviously, you weren't born here, because the streetcar did indeed terminate at Glen Echo. It then simply turned around via a loop track prior to the bridge you refer to.
You also obviously are not familiar with the topography of the streetcar line. Indeed, there are elevated sections, including those that remain in the woods past Glen Echo. You are also 100% wrong that a trestle is only a wooden structure. The CCT uses a metal trestle by Arizona Avenue that is called a...trestle!
I've not only lived here my whole life, but am an expert on railroads, and your arguments are just factually and empirically wrong.
You've taken more pratfalls on this page than Chevy Chase. Please call it quits before you make a total fool of yourself again.
"All aboard the Carpetbagger Express!! Obviously, you weren't born here, because the streetcar did indeed terminate at Glen Echo. It then simply turned around via a loop track prior to the bridge you refer to."
So what you're saying is that the streetcar line "terminated" at Glen Echo, then continued another mile in the same direction before turning around at the east end of the Cabin John Bridge, then made the return trip.
Do you understand what the word "terminate" actually means?
5:20: Unlike you, I do know terminate means the last stop on the line, which was indeed Glen Echo.
Dyer @ 7:15 AM - No revenue service at all on the entire 2-mile round trip from Glen Echo to the turnaround loop at Cabin John, and back, for every single trip? That seems very unlikely.
10:25: Carpetbaggers of the world unite!
"I do recall being pointedly snubbed for the media preview of this restaurant in 2013, an event attended by Bobby Flay himself. Not very smart to not promote your restaurant to thousands of readers of the leading source for Bethesda restaurant news at launch time. Always a bad way to enter a market in the new media age."
Ha ha...utterly delusional.
5:53: It is definitely delusional to exclude the most-read Bethesda dining news source in the year 2013, not 1973. Embarrassing, also. Some businesses are stupid enough to continue making that mistake today.
"The state of Maryland had revoked BurgerIM’s franchise rights in the state."
LOL
Scooped on the opening of Potbelly, so you have to throw in your usual "MoCo" gibberish.
5:08: I have the first photos published anywhere of the restaurant. That is a scoop. So you have to throw in your usual Antifa Neo-Commie gibberish.
What sort of blithering nonsense is Montgomery County’s favorite White Nationalism wannabe incel blathering about now?
Really Robert the whole town is laughing at you. You act all tough on here but all anybody has to do is look at you on YouTube and know you are a wussy little sod.
4:14: I'm out here in the open using my real name - you're cowering in a dark room anonymously, and in no position to criticize anyone. You are Montgomery County's favorite Antifa Mao wannabe.
Hey Dyer - If you are so embarrassed by your comments defending the Nazi murderers in Charlottesville, why don't you just delete them?
http://www.rockvillenights.com/2017/08/moco-council-spanish-radio-program.html
7:29: If I was embarrassed, I would have. I'm not embarrassed stating facts, which is neither support nor condemnation, but simply the facts. The topic has nothing to do with the articles you keep pasting them onto.
You should be embarrassed for defending an Antifa/Deep State political operation that resulted in injury and death, and that to this day has never debriefed the public on the cause of the State Police helicopter crash that killed two state troopers that day nor why Terry McAuliffe and his buddies in Charlottesville intentionally left streets open - complete opposite of standard event procedures - to facilitate what happened.
I'll never be embarrassed to defend Constitutional and human rights, both of which were violated by Virginia elected officials that day.
THIS is what Dyer is defending.
THIS is what Dyer is trying to blame on then-Governor Terry McAuliffe and "an Antifa/Deep State political operation".
"At around 1:45 p.m. on August 12, 2017, self-identified white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) away from the rally site, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 other people. Fields fled the scene in his car but was arrested soon afterward; he was tried and convicted in Virginia state court of first-degree murder, malicious wounding, and other crimes in 2018, with the jury recommending a sentence of life imprisonment plus 419 years. The following year, Fields pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes in a plea agreement to avoid the death penalty in this trial."
Dyer has his troll trapped in a box, this thread, for eternity. lol.
Well played, Mr. Dyer.
2:04 PM You're lying because you don't have access to Dyer's analytics.
I'm enjoying the daily news without your repetitive comments. I can always visit this thread when I want a dose of your negativity and madness :)
9:06: No, you don't have any quote where I defend that. The 1st Amendment doesn't permit violence. It does permit freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, no matter whether the majority approves of the people or content in either case. Westboro Church, KKK, Montgomery County Council, Communist Party - it doesn't matter who or what, they still get to assemble and meet.
Are you going on the record as opposed to the 1st Amendment? That makes you sound crazy, not me.
Who is responsible for the violence is McAuliffe et al in elected office, who told police to stand down intentionally, allow violent altercations, and left streets open to vehicles during a massive pedestrian event. Even in Montgomery County for far smaller events, police regularly close and barricade streets to vehicles. You know that full well. Virginia's "progressive" Neo-Commies have yet to be held accountable for their active role in the serious injuries and death that resulted from their deliberate actions in government office.
Robert Dyer: "Who is responsible for the violence is McAuliffe et al in elected office, who told police to stand down intentionally, allow violent altercations, and left streets open to vehicles during a massive pedestrian event. Virginia's 'progressive' Neo-Commies have yet to be held accountable for their active role in the serious injuries and death that resulted from their deliberate actions in government office."
Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world. It is normally contrasted to natural forces, which are causes involving only unthinking deterministic processes.
"On August 12, 2017, a car was deliberately driven into a crowd of people who had been peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one and injuring 28. The driver of the car, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., had driven from Ohio to attend the rally. Fields previously espoused neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs. He was convicted in a state court of hit and run, the first-degree murder of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, and eight counts of malicious wounding, and sentenced to life in prison with an additional 419 years in July 2019. He also pled guilty to 29 of 30 federal hate crime charges to avoid the death penalty, which also resulted in another life sentence handed down in June 2019."
5:26: How did the car get to the crowd?
Via the human agency of McAuliffe and Charlottesville leaders who intentionally and willfully left roadways open. I note that the media has conveniently not sought, nor has the CIA released as they now regularly and illegally do via leaks, the full phone conversations and electronic communications of all of the relevant elected officials in the weeks and days prior to the Unite the Right event.
You can post the resume and factoids about a killer paroled from prison, but the governor who let him out will still be guilty of the "human agency" that allowed him to kill again. Same goes in Charlottesville, Boy Friday. Anyone with half a functioning brain closes off streets to auto traffic during major crowd events. We do this all the time in Montgomery County, and you know that.
Damn, son, you just got destroyed.
Oh shut up already Robert. Time for you to take a break from your cute little blog, have mommy make you breakfast and, then go take a nap. You are so grumpy. Night night little incel boy.
Funny how your article on Metro in Virginia omits this week's news that the opening of the second phase of the Silver Line - which will give Virginians a direct connection to Dulles Airport for the first time - has been delayed for at least a year, possibly much longer.
Also, I note that your time-stamps for today's article - which is the only news on all four blogs of "Suburban News Network" - is incorrect. Even accounting for the fact that the Bethesda blog's clock is 3 hours behind lifelong-Bethesda-resident time, the article was posted well after 9:00 AM Eastern, yet all four have the time-stamp of "8:00 AM" ("5:00 AM" for the Bethesda blog).
"How did the car get to the crowd?"
It wasn't a self-driving Prius. One of your racist buddies deliberately drove straight into that crowd. No one in the Virginia or Charlottesville governments forced him or even encouraged him in any way to do that.
And thanks for showing that you don't have the slightest understanding of what the term "human agency" actually means, in spite of having it explained to you in the comment immediately preceding.
You just mindlessly copy and paste, and parrot things other people say and write, without any understanding of what you are saying or doing.
@ 7:26 AM - It's also funny how Dyer's article completely omits mention of the recent discussion of proposals to build a monorail along I-270 from Shady Grove to Frederick.
"Construction of equally-long-delayed new Potomac River crossing to Dulles Airport with trackbed for future Red Line extension to Silver Line in median, as a toll facility built by a private company"
Why would the Red Line go up from Metro Center to Shady Grove and beyond to Clarksburg?, then go all the way back down and over to Dulles? That would be a really dumb route, especially if it's also going to Clarksburg. Going from Metro Center to Dulles would be 60 miles one-way, not just dumb but a logistical nightmare.
Do you ever actually think things through before you write them?
8:16: It wouldn't go up to Clarksburg to cross - I-370 is in Gaithersburg, not Clarksburg.
7:33: I'm not opposed to it. It doesn't seem as walker-friendly as one that goes right to the Lakeforest Mall site, but would be within walking distance.
Dyer @ 8:23 AM - This is what you wrote:
"-Extending the Red Line to Clarksburg, including options for at-grade, elevated and cut-and-cover underground segments
"-Construction of equally-long-delayed new Potomac River crossing to Dulles Airport with trackbed for future Red Line extension to Silver Line in median, as a toll facility built by a private company"
8:30: No kidding - it would split off in two directions. More likely be called Silver Line crossing the river to avoid confusion.
Let's be optimistic and assume the Purple Line and BRT fill a feed and alleviate some congestion in those corridors.
The biggest problem is still I-270 to the bridge, which has been flashing red for a couple of decades at least. Our elected officials continue to put the figurative piece of masking tape over the dashboard warning light. Meanwhile Virginia seems to be willing to make the tough decisions for short term pain and longer term positive outcomes.
And the Silver Line is quite successful- all of those corporate HQs like Capital One certainly appreciate the new Metro stations steps from their doors. Tysons is being transformed while White Flint has stalled out (except for Pike & Rose). We didn't get the "muscular" urban White Flint that our council promised.
-The old Comsat site is adjacent to I-270 but well out of the walkshed of MD 355.
-Lakeforest Mall is out of the walkshed of I-270 and most of the site is even outside of the walkshed of MD 355.
-The fairgrounds are within the walkshed of both MD 355 and I-270, but I'm not sure why you want to redevelop it. Where do you propose to hold the annual Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, a beloved tradition for over a century for lifelong residents?
-You can't really design a route that would directly serve all three sites.
Dyer fakes the time stamps again.
How come Dyer hasn't posted his article about the proposed tax changes on the Bethesda blog? He posted it on all of the other blogs in the "Network". [Timestamp 9:40 AM EST, 6:40 AM Dyer Time]
"Last year, Councilmember Evan Glass (D - At-Large) proposed a "teardown tax," also known as a "McMansion tax." It would have taxed new construction homes that replaced existing homes, and then place an excise tax on the square footage added. The proposal was blasted by homebuilders, many of whom would have been forced out of business by the new taxes. Local media did their darndest to promote Glass and his tax, but rarely told the public that he did not even have the votes on the Council to pass it."
That's funny, I can't find any record of this in this blog. Surely Dyer would have reported it at the time.
6:41: Very simple - Blogger timed post failed to upload it at the pre-programmed time. That's Google's fault, not mine.
6:46: Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it's not there. The Google Blogger search tool is often useless to find something even I'm looking for. But what a weird approach to the debate, which indicates you cannot argue on the facts of the issue.
‘Chase Trust building is arguably the most-recognized modern building in downtown Bethesda’
Based on what data? A survey of just you? Not like you went around asking people for their input. You just pull these stats out of thin air?
Such hyperbole Robert makes you look stupid and down right sad
You have no job or friends and I can’t see people on the street wanting to talk to you
Congratulations on the wonderful illustrations on today’s post. Love seeing you stable huge brain at work. So talented
6:21 AM A benefit of being a life long resident writing about his city :)
"The landmark WMAL radio towers at 7115 Greentree Road aren't likely to be there too much longer."
Well, Duh...other sites have reported exactly when they are coming down. But I'm not doing your homework for you this time.
5:25: No they haven't, dumbass. And if they had, their published date would be incorrect.
Not only can you not demolish without permits in hand, which haven't been issued, but someone actually working on the project confirmed rumors that the demolition has been delayed.
#scooped
Robert Dyer. Shiny example of the master race.
Intelligence will not replace Dyer
Too late, Dyer. You missed the demo.
Loser.
BOOM BOOM BOOM
BOOM BOOM BOOM
BOOM BOOM BOOM
Awesome! Sorry you missed it, Robbie.
"Considering that the Beltway and I-270 are where a great number of drivers are coming from in the morning, and trying to reach in the evening, this is going to create an incredible bottleneck. Anyone who drives the road during rush hours is aware of just how bad the traffic jams are now."
Not really. The most congested area of Old Georgetown Road is to the north, between Grosvenor Lane and I-270. This stretch isn't that bad, even in rush hours. Wisconsin Avenue is far worse.
Old Georgetown Road south of McKinley Street has always been two lanes each way, and the bottleneck at the transition there isn't really that bad. Although it seems weird that they are leaving the part of Old Georgetown Road between McKinley Street and Cedar Lane as three lanes each way. Or maybe that's because there is already that very nice path along the NIH campus.
Robert Dyer's readers are huddled together in this secret place, like early Christians in the Catacombs of Rome.
JIF-eaters will not replace us.
7:12: First actual report from the scene - nobody else had the official statement of the closure from the company posted in the window. First report of BWW temporary closure. #scooped Many have taken note that you reverted to using the term "MCS" the same day as the Twitter account did. You're wasting time when you still have to pick up Hans' dry cleaning and tidy up the Council office, fat boy.
"Fat boy"
I am at the recommended weight for my height. Just curious, who do you imagine I am?
Your heroes Larry Hogan and Marc Elrich are both obese. Yet I don't see you calling either of them "fat boy".
Stop trying to gaslight Dyer. Like everything else you are really bad at it
2:36: If I was bad at it, the MoCo Cartel wouldn't have had to create an Astro-Turf "Montgomery County press corps" since 2012 to try to knock me off. And you wouldn't be getting paid pizza money to troll me as part of your Astro-Turf online work for the cartel, either. Yet I'm still publishing daily, so it appears you are the ones who are "really bad at it."
12:31: If you were the recommended weight for your height, you wouldn't be in a dark room trolling local news websites 24/7.
So tell us Robert all about the COVID 19 virus.
You are the third most smart on the subject after Trump and Pence.
Our Leader tells us this isn’t serious and that it will be gone by April. I mean if he says it is hoax then that must be true be because un like Obama Trump never lies.
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