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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are those poor kids waiting for a bus on Georgia Ave??[/quote]

Question #1: Why is there a bus stop on Georgia Avenue?
Question #2: What will it take for the Maryland State Highway Administration and the Montgomery County Department of Transportation to finally agree to make Georgia Avenue safe for the many, many people who walk and ride buses on Georgia Avenue? Everybody already knows that Georgia Avenue is dangerous. There's lots of data. If you look at a map of just crashes involving pedestrians in Montgomery County, you can pick out Georgia Avenue. Actually you can pick out all of the state-controlled roads, just from the number of crashes involving pedestrians. [/quote]

The problem in our neighborhood is that kids are walking along the shoulder of a busy road because there is no bus transportation and no sidewalk.  It's not as busy as Georgia Ave, but still a major throughway during rush hour.  There's also a road where cars stop/line up to turn left and others pass too quickly along the right shoulder-- the shoulder where kids are walking.  The best solution would be sidewalks (I've sent a request to the county and never heard a peep), but second best would be to bus the kids from that neighborhood so they don't need to walk along shoulder.[/quote]

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