Westbard Square developer Regency Centers says its contractors will be installing speed bumps on Little Falls Parkway in Bethesda this week, and possibly into next week. Crews will close one lane at a time, and flaggers will direct traffic. The company says the bumps are being installed "for safety and in an effort to mitigate speeding violations." This is the first public announcement of this, and there has been no public process to discuss implementation of speed bumps on the parkway.
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Will they lanes be opened and those ridiculous white poles removed?
Little Falls Parkway has been fine for decades. Why all the odd experiments and changes just in the past 6 months?
Feels like money would be well spent elsewhere.
The idea that people wanted to walk on the street instead of the trail was a failed experiment. So are the white poles.
One traffic cop with a radar gun would be more effective, and more profitable. To be honest, i’ve never actually seen a police car in Bethesda doing any form of traffic enforcement or community engagement. Do we have police service?
Of all places that need speed humps/bumps desperately, how do those locations have them and Battery Lane does not...?
Little Falls is definitely not fine. To those of us who live along it and have to cross it, there’s a definite need for traffic calming measures.
+1 on a few police radar expeditions doing plenty to calm traffic in a few afternoons.
If you think traffic congestion is already bad from the Westbard detour, wait until you add speed bumps on a road where the posted limit is 35 mph. It will bring to area surface roads all the misery and congestion of a Beltway rush hour. That should do wonders to make people avoid the area like Fukushima.
3:35 ridiculous. that road was perfectly fine until the one incident while tragic of course. any death is horrible but accidents do happen. there is no need whatsoever for any of this. that road needs speed bumps? what about the thousands of other county roads similar to it? should tht taxpayer foot the bill to put easing measures all over the county? no, they shouldn't.
@ 2:36 Agreed!! That corner coming around from the firehouse with a crosswalk at the park is deadly. Why are we waiting for someone to get killed?
We've all seen the video of grandma sitting in her lawn chair with a hair dryer pointed at traffic. Slow Down! Don't make me use my French.
I live in this area and in response to 6:18, I say good. If its so difficult to drive around here don't come here in your car. There are plenty of other shopping areas to get your stuff at. You may say why shouldn't motorists be able to freely use the public streets. My response: because motorists have abused that privilege. On the street where I reside fully half of the drivers were breaking some law or about to. Over-the-weight limit trucks all day long, speeders, drivers who were about to make an illegal left and ones who had just made an illegal right, unlawfully loud exhaust, etc. Lots of vehicle accidents and a few pedestrians run into. I am very conservative but the one area I agree with the MoCo "progressives" is there are too many vehicles.
@8:35 It sounds more like you think there are too many vehicles in your area. It's nice to see you support the idea of independent fiefdoms through which none shall pass save those duly anointed by a Committee of the Worthy. Yes, true-- taxes from the citizenry at large will continue to subsidize maintenance of these streets and roads, but we simply can't let just anyone use them.
"There are plenty of other shopping areas to get your stuff at. You may say why shouldn't motorists be able to freely use the public streets. My response: because motorists have abused that privilege."
Shoving the problem into someone else's neighborhood is the "B" answer. The "A" answer, were you actually concerned with anything beyond your personal convenience, is fining and, if indicated, revoking driver's licenses for vehicle operators found to be in violation of the law. Admittedly, considering the welfare of anyone other than yourself is likely an alien concept to you, judging from your post, above.
@ 8:35am-- fully agree!
12:10 that might be an option were it not for the fact that traffic law enforcement has been almost completely delegated to speed/red light cameras. Pulling over a motorist was already one of the most dangerous things a cop could do. Now there is the added danger that if a cop tussles with or, god forbid, shoots anyone but a straight white guy, even in legitimate self-defense his/her career is over. I stopped worrying about the hardships faced by motorists after the number of cars illegally driving past my house exceeded 500 per day. At any rate I will be engaging in self-help and moving to another state next month so I don't have to read any more lectures from the likes of you.
Why would the Westbard Square developer Regency Centers' contractors be doing anything on Little Falls Parkway? Shouldn't that be Montgomery Parks' job?
Are they maybe installing speed bumps on Westbard Ave?
Ahhhh, the terrain shifts. *Now* your justification for banning cars in your neighborhood is police fearing the fallout if they "tussle" with anyone. God forbid, indeed. Can you imagine the impudence, a community being upset because police use deadly force on someone? What *has* the world come to when an officer has to worry about being held to account. Talk of injustice! Imagine the temerity, expecting a cop to *justify* his actions --possibly even with evidence, here in the People's Republic of Montgomery-- if he shoots and possibly kills someone.
Happy trails, 3:16. I hope your new digs exceed your wildest dreams: little traffic, open spaces, and lots of police who laugh at the idea of being held to account.
Does anybody know who to email/call about the changes on little falls?
Hey 8:15, I know its next to impossible for folks like you to resist pointing out the supposed character flaws of folks like me but I feel that I should point something out to you. That is you are bucking "progressive" orthodoxy by defending car users. Progs are all about getting rid of any (non-electric) cars and forcing everyone else who can't afford one onto public transportation. So be careful or you may have your prog card cancelled.
Hey 7:33, I know it's next to impossible for folks like you to resist seeing people as one or another Commedia dell'Arte stock character, assigned an undeviating role to play in the series of scripts produced in your fevered mind.
"Here's where 'The Progressive' tells me to eat kale and install solar panels.'"
Bad news for your dramatis personae: While you may subscribe to and take comfort from following such vacuous tropes, you are well wide the mark with me. Nonetheless, I think you for your reply. It is amusing to read, if only for its offering yet another in a vast ocean of examples, of the monolithic, [apparently] intransigent belief system undergirding so many on the MAGA side of the aisle.
Damn you are smart 11:00. Must have gone to an Ivy.
Ridiculous
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