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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That entire area is INSANE. You can't drive more than 20 feet without a speed bump, stop sign or light. Have you driven up Dorset from Little Falls to Wisconsin? WTH???

Roads are for driving, people.[/quote]

Historically, roads were not built for driving. Bikes and pedestrians were using roads way before cars appeared. In reality, roads were multi-use for a very long time. Drives me nuts driving up Dorset so I avoid it, which is the point.  It’s a residential road that doesn’t need cars cutting through to Wisconsin. [/quote]

Don't give a crap about what happened when we got around by horse and buggy. We're talking about 2022. For my entire lifetime, roads have been for driving. Dorset goes from Little Falls to Wisconsin. Can you suggest another road that does that? I'm sorry the wealthy people who live in Somerset would rather have the road all to themselves, but my taxes paid for it and I want to use it TO DRIVE ON. Since that is indeed what roads are made for, in 2022.

If we're addressing pedestrian and bike safety, why not insist pedestrians and bicyclists behaving safely, too? I can't tell you how many times every single day I see pedestrians walking into the street staring straight down at their phones, or with their backs to oncoming traffic, like idiots. No amount of speed bumps can keep idiots like that safe.[/quote]

Well, you may notice that a lot of people walk and bike on roads. Guess what, we all pay taxes  and some of us are polluting the air to get around and are not operating a 2 tone vehicle with the anger you are exhibiting in this forum.[/quote]

I walk and bike too but unless you are suggesting that every single road in MoCo should have speed bumps this is a very odd choice to start installing them. [/quote]

People need to stop speeding. Until that happens, stte and county officials are going to make physical installations to force people to stop speeding. It is quite simple, really.[/quote]

No one speed on that stretch of road. It goes from two lanes to one almost immediately, so people have to merge like it or not, then it curves around several curves before coming to River Rd. There is no time to speed.[/quote]

Seriously PP is expressing an insane attitude with respect to this particular stretch of road.

It’s not the biggest deal in the world for me personally but it’s just very strange. I almost wonder if the fact that no one lives on this stretch of road is why it got done— because they didn’t have to explain themselves to anyone in advance. [/quote]
The reason they did it is because the road is managed by County Parks (not DOT) that is chaired by Casey Anderson. He’s being petulant because they had to reopen the parkway for commerce so he’s throwing an intentional fit to piss off people in Bethesda who he detests. [/quote]

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