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Testimony on Growth Policy
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Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. TESTIMONY ON ANNUAL GROWTH POLICY. September 22, 2009. We at the Action Committee for Transit read the Planning Board's report on growth policy. With great interest. The first half of this report is an outstanding analysis of the transportation and land use issues the county faces. We face demographic and environmental challenges that cannot be met by continuing past planning practices. 1 Alternative PAMR procedure.
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Purple Line
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Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. On August 3rd, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon handed down a decision. That will halt the construction of the Purple Line. According to the Bethesda Beat. The judge demanded that a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) be conducted before the project can proceed to construction, guaranteeing months of delay and jeopardizing the project. The Purple Line construction contract closed. By linking major su...
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Bethesda South Metro Entrance-
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Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. On Feb. 11 the County Council approved. A proposal to tear down the Apex Building instead of building the Bethesda Purple Line station in the old railroad tunnel beneath it. In exchange for tearing down the building, the owners of the building would be allowed to replace it with a much bigger building after the Purple Line is finished. The owners have belatedly expressed interest. Study Main Text,. The Bethesda south ent...
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Public Information lawsuit
http://www.actfortransit.org/archives/press/2015Feb02RelChevyChaseLawsuitFiled.html
Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. Action Committee for Transit Files Suit Over. Improper Secrecy in Campaign Against Purple Line. Press release issued February 2, 2015. The Action Committee for Transit (ACT) filed suit in District Court against the Town of Chevy Chase on Friday, charging. That the Town government violated the state Public Information Act in keeping hidden important information about its campaign against the Purple Line. In a recent letter.
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Testimony on White Flint
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Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. White Flint Sector Plan Hearing Testimony. Presented by Cavan Wilk. October 20, 2009. For the property owners, a suburban-to-urban retrofit is an excellent project. They would no longer have to pay taxes on land in their strip malls that is dedicated to large non-revenue generating surface parking lots, and will be able to collect more rent in the denser walkable urban environment. 3 Immediately rebuild Rockville Pike in...
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Pedestrians in Montgomery County
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Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. Read the guest article. By Glenn Daigon on Vision Zero. See the latest information on Safe Routes to School. From a presentation given at an ACT meeting. ACT launches a campaign to bring Vision Zero. We can start immediately with quick, inexpensive measures:. Brightly painted crosswalks at every intersection. Ticket drivers who endanger pedestrians. Streets Should Be for Walking. Montgomery County welcomes pedestrians.
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MARC 7-day service
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Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. All-Day Two-Way MARC Service. If you live near a MARC station on the train line from Washington D.C to Frederick and Brunswick, Maryland, it's a great way to commute, but only if your schedule fits the MARC schedule. Right now the trains only go one way for a few hours in the morning, and the other way for a few hours in the afternoon. Trains should run seven days a week all day in both directions. Total cost of the plan...
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Bethesda Naval Hospital Expansion
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Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. Bethesda Naval Hospital Expansion - A Missed Opportunity. In 2005, the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) recommended relocating Walter Reed Hospital to the Bethesda Naval Hospital campus. This combined facility is now known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The most important improvement in transit access, an elevator down to Metro's Red Line in front of the Navy Hospital gate, wil...
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Town of Chevy Chase and the Purple Line
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Silver Spring Transit Center. Baltimore Red Line Now. Montgomery County Ride On Bus. The Town of Chevy Chase has ended its active opposition to the Purple Line and will aim to work cooperatively with the Maryland Transportation Administration to resolve concerns about the line's design. A September 9 Town Council meeting approved a resolution stating that the Town of Chevy Chase wishes to focus its efforts on mitigation of, rather than opposition to, the Purple Line.”. Costs and Benefits of Transit.
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light rail | Comeback City
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Baltimore’s Red Line connects more than you may think. February 5, 2015. Baltimore’s Red Line. Will be much more than a new transit mode for a single city. Beyond making it easier to travel across Baltimore, the Red Line will join MARC. And the Purple Line. To better integrate Baltimore City and County with Washington DC, Prince Georges County and Montgomery County. In fact, by combining with the MARC, Baltimore’s Red Line destinations can be accessed by rail from seven Maryland counties. The Purple line...
