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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In MoCo, where many downcounty schools are severely overcrowded (and have been for years with no relief or delayed relief), and traffic is beyond awful (roads fail the county's own road tests, again with no relief in site), it makes no sense to make policies to add density without also doing something to these other infrastructures.  Which is exactly what the planning board intends to do[/quote]

The beyond-awful traffic is because of the spread-out-ness, actually.[/quote]

Partly. But I live walking distance to a metro station, which is where they want to build more dense housing, and we are still very car dependent for anything beyond going to downtown DC.  There’s no plan to build more walkable amenities like a grocery store, etc., just more apartments. Whose residents will also largely be car dependent.[/quote]

Well, sure, if you live within walking distance of Forest Glen Metro, for example. There's lots of stuff a mile and a half north at Wheaton Metro, and there's lots of stuff half a mile south on the other side of the Beltway, but Georgia Avenue is awful, so you don't want to walk to either one. Fortunately, there are plans to fix this.[/quote]

You haven't looked into those plans very well.  Doesn't address [b]crossing the beltway[/b], among many other shortcomings.[/quote]

https://www.roads.maryland.gov/mdotsha/pages/pressreleasedetails.aspx?PageId=0&newsId=4685[/quote]

Your link to last summer's meeting announcement is just a misdirection, yes?  The plan doesn't have any significant improvement for getting pedestrians across the beltway.[/quote]

There is already a whole bridge for getting pedestrians across the Beltway. That's not the problem. The problem is that Georgia Avenue south of the Beltway is miserable for pedestrians, and Georgia Avenue north of the Beltway is miserable for pedestrians.[/quote]

And dangerous with the sidewalks right up against the street.[/quote]

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