Planning Board Chair and planners will discuss current projects related to Purple Line, Corridor Cities Transitway, Bus Rapid Transit and bike plans
SILVER SPRING, MD – The Montgomery County Planning Department and Planning Board, part of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, will participate in the Transit Progress Day event at the National Capital Trolley Museum (1313 Bonifant Road, Colesville, MD) from 12 noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 13.
The public is invited to learn more about County plans for future Purple Line light rail stations, Corridor Cities Transitway, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network, Bicycle Master Plan and other transportation-related projects. Planning Board Chair Casey Anderson and transportation planner Tom Autrey will be on hand to explain the details and answer questions about the recent projects and plans.
WHAT: Transit Progress Day
WHEN: Saturday, June 13 from 12 noon to 3 p.m.
WHERE: National Capital Trolley Museum
1313 Bonifant Road
Colesville, MD 20905
Tel: 301-384-6088
About the National Capital Trolley Museum
The National Capital Trolley Museum is located in the M-NCPPC’s Northwest Branch Park and operates as a Montgomery County Department of Parks Partner. Opened to the public in 1969, the museum’s mission is to preserve and interpret the history of Washington’s electric street railways. The collections consist of 17 streetcars from Washington D.C. and other cities. Many of these are operated on a one-mile demonstration railway. The museum includes an O-scale model layout representing a Washington streetscape from the 1930s, a film program and traditional exhibits of street railway artifacts and photographs.
About the Bicycle Master Plan
One of the Planning Department’s newest efforts is a plan for bicycle routes and facilities that will be launched on July 1, 2015. This Bicycle Master Plan will focus on developing a high-quality, low-stress network reflecting the latest biking practices and will consolidate all bicycle recommendations into a single plan for the first time since 1978. A key objective of the Bicycle Master Plan will be to improve bike access to and from existing and planned transit stations throughout the County.
“Our goal is to create the best bikeway network in the entire country,” says Anderson, who is an active cyclist. “We have an active bike community with organizations like the Washington Area Bicyclists Association and Montgomery Bicycle Advocates (Mo Bike) that will be involved in the planning process.”
The County Bicycle Master Plan will embrace the newest types of bike routes, such as separated bike lanes, buffered bike lanes and bicycle boulevards, as well as secure bicycle storage facilities. Already, a new cycle track built on North Bethesda’s Woodglen Drive in 2014 and similar bikeways planned for Shady Grove and White Flint reflect these newer types of designs.
The Bicycle Master Plan will initially focus on developing a high-quality bicycle network in the Great Seneca Science Corridor area of the Corridor Cities Transitway, a 15-mile bus rapid transit (BRT) line proposed to run from the COMSAT facility near Clarksburg to the Shady Grove Metrorail Station.
For more information about the Bicycle Master Plan, go to: www.montgomeryplanning.org/bikeplan