{"id":3483,"date":"2013-02-04T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:58:31","slug":"the-next-generation-of-transit-the-key-to-montgomerys-green-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2013\/02\/the-next-generation-of-transit-the-key-to-montgomerys-green-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Generation of Transit: the Key to Montgomery&#8217;s Green Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Join us for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartergrowth.net\/\">Coalition for Smarter Growth&#8217;s <\/a>panel discussion on the need to &#8220;invest in transit to improve our quality of life, protect our open spaces, and do our part in stopping climate change,&#8221; on Wednesday. February 13th from 6-8 pm at the Silver Spring Civic Building.<\/p>\n<p>The Planning Department will be part of the panel, discussing the update to our Master Plan of Highways, which will move that functional plan beyond roadways to address bus rapid transit, bicycle-pedestrian priority areas, and MARC service.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition shares some interesting data about bus rapid transit:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3484 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NextGenTransit-flier_Page_1-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"NextGenTransit-flier_Page_1\" width=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NextGenTransit-flier_Page_1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NextGenTransit-flier_Page_1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NextGenTransit-flier_Page_1.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">and provides a good description of bus rapdi transit (it&#8217;s not what you might expect from buses!):<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3485 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NextGenTransit-flier_Page_2-787x1024.jpg\" alt=\"NextGenTransit-flier_Page_2\" width=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NextGenTransit-flier_Page_2-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NextGenTransit-flier_Page_2-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NextGenTransit-flier_Page_2.jpg 1904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Join us for the Coalition for Smarter Growth&#8217;s panel discussion on the need to &#8220;invest in transit to improve our quality of life, protect our open spaces, and do our part in stopping climate change,&#8221; on Wednesday. February 13th from 6-8 pm at the Silver Spring Civic Building.<\/p>\n<p>The Planning Department will be part of the panel, discussing the update to our Master Plan of Highways, which will move that functional plan beyond roadways to address bus rapid transit, bicycle-pedestrian priority areas, and MARC service.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition shares some interesting data about bus rapid transit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">and provides a good description of bus rapdi transit (it&#8217;s not what you might expect from buses!):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11019,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/11019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}