"That oughta keep 'em out." Montgomery County has stepped up efforts to secure the now-closed Public Parking Lot 43, after intruders simply drove through wooden sawhorses that were initially placed across the lot's two access driveways. Construction fencing has now been erected across the Woodmont Avenue side of the parking lot property, which should keep out anybody short of a T-1000 in an 18-wheeler. Montgomery County said goodbye to the lot so that it could be absorbed into the future site of the Artena Bethesda apartments, for which a groundbreaking is expected very soon.
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I really miss the Sir Walter Raleigh.
Sir Walter's. Classic! Typical Bethesda entitled, rules don't apply to me, park your car anywhere you damn well please. Nice. Blocked off means blocked off. Next will be guard dogs.
I'll be back...
x3 on Sir Walter Raleigh's. A solitary outpost remained open until 2020, somewhere in College Park. Situated within striking distance of teeming, roiling undergrad hordes, it was doubtless a pit, but I still mourn not discovering that news in time. Brand me hopelessly middlebrow, but my kid self fairly loved that steak house in the 1970s and early '80s.
*sigh*
Excelsior!
On what basis do you conclude that the driver was from Bethesda?
This is now private property. The county has nothing to do with the newly erected fence.
When does this stop being MOCO's (our) problem and start being the problem of the folks building those apartments? In other words, who owns this property now? BTW, I still don't see any no trespassing signs hanging on that fence in the photo.
You got me with the T-1000 reference, Robert. I thought it was a new fangled engine size until I asked Ms. Google. LOL.
I remember when they first closed off the intersection of Westbard at River Rd. People would get out of their cars and move the barriers or just push through them with their vehicles. Until the placed a double row of concrete barriers there. Folks, whether from Beth or further afield, are pigheaded and in a big hurry.
2:26 That's a stretch JAC. Robert's original post had a picture of the sawhorses down for one of the now closed parking lots on Woodmont where there will be new construction. There's no evidence at all that anyone 'entitled' in Bethesda tried to park their car in those parking lots. We (you, me, and Robert) have no idea why two of the four sawhorses were down. There is a fence there to secure the construction site. Nothing out of the ordinary. You're making up conclusions without a shred of evidence and then project what's coming next, i.e., guard dogs. This is right in line with many of your fact-free conclusions and comments about Bethesda.
3:22 - Of course we don't know who helped themselves to a closed parking lot. Would anyone be surprised though? No.
8:19 - Exactly my point. Can't be bothered to follow the rules. I see it all the time.
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