UPDATE: HELP ME NAME THIS NEW PROJECT: Maryland Juice has decided that he's done calling this the "Bus Rapid Transit" plan. That sounds like an STD. This transit project needs a new name. I nominate something like "The MoCo Grid" or "The MoCo Web." Try it out: "Let's take the Purple Line and transfer to the Web/Grid in Silver Spring." Okay, maybe my idea isn't the greatest, but you get the idea.... Send your alternate suggestions to david@marylandjuice.com. If anyone has a good idea, I'll post it!
THE RETRO? Maryland Juice Reader Terrill North sends in the following suggestion: "How about the RETRO? As in, I took the red line to Silver Spring and hopped the RETRO to Kensington. I think a superbus is kind of retro compared to people movers you see in sci-fi movies."
Montgomery County 2040 |
The Gazette reports on preparations for a 150-mile transit network. See the proposed routes below and an excerpt from
The Gazette article below:
The Gazette reports on preparations for the 150-mile transit network:
Since its adoption in 1931, Montgomery County’s Master Plan of Highways has been altered to include some of the area’s most ambitious transportation projects, such as the Purple Line and the Corridor Cities Transitway....
At an open house meeting last month at the Upcounty Regional Services Center, transportation planners from the county talked about the work being done to make way for a bus rapid transit amendment in the plan. The amendment would help clear the way for the development of a 150-mile bus system in the county by 2040....
Bus rapid transit systems are akin to light rails in that they have routes, lanes and stations, though they often travel on dedicated bus lanes on public streets. And unlike the existing Ride On bus service, rapid transit buses would travel on lanes without any other traffic, provide real-time information about how soon the next bus would arrive and receive priority at traffic signals.... Read the full article at The Gazette.
Montgomery County 2012 |
The Washington Post reports that new Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua Starr is requesting a 2% increase in the school system budget:
