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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With KSAC closed, we drove from the Tilden area to the aquatic center in DTSS for swim all year. It is a 45 minute drive every time. It was miserable and we won't be signing up to do it again in the Fall.

Traffic in MoCo is miserable - whether west to east or vice versa. I don't know why people are arguing that this is not the case. And obviously a bus ride is much longer because of the stops. [/quote]

Are you trying to argue traveling from one part of the county to another will always take 45 minutes? Obviously that's absurd but I can't think of any other way your little anecdote is relevant to this thread. If anything it highlights a commute that Option 3 isn't proposing (with good reason, that particular route is a disaster).[/quote]

No, with traffic it can be longer even in the back roads.  [/quote]

You are absolutely right, that area is terrible, I agree with you. I get stuck in traffic in that area weekly. I am so glad Option 3 doesn't involve having to go from Tilden to DTSS.[/quote]

[b]Randolph Road is equally bad. [/b]Major tie ups at intersections as well as the train crossing. Total nightmare to get from this side of the county to the other.

Some of you may recall that Montrose Parkway (now Josiah Henson Parkway) was supposed to be built on the East side of Rockville Pike to alleviate that traffic.  It was not built, of course, when they ran out of money.

But I bet there are a ton of studies about how bad and dangerous that traffic is on Randolph East of Rockville Pike. And that was years ago.[/quote]

It is really not. I take Randolph Rd all the time in rush hour. Yes there is a stretch around the train tracks where you might get stuck behind traffic lights or a MARC train for a few minutes (rarely have I seen freight trains there at rush hour). It is not remotely like going from Tilden to DTSS.

Btw they did not "run out of money" for Montrose crossing, Elrich simply decided not to do it.[/quote]

There is no denying that the county, prior to any of this talk of bussing kids across county, was planning to spend millions on alleviating the horrible traffic on Randolph Road. I don’t fully understand why they didn’t continue Montrose Parkway East but there was a determined need, that they also spent a bunch of money studying.

You cannot seriously in good conscience say that traffic is not an issue on Randolph. It is a dangerous road, with a lot of traffic, with pedestrian crossings etc. The county should have fixed it at the time but they did not.

To ask our kids to commute to school, back and forth on that road, is absurd and doesn’t take into account safety or the increase in traffic on an already overused road, in addition to the 45 minute trip (an hour and a half both ways).

And I don’t think it’s fair to ask students and their families to pay to drive to school on the ICC.[/quote]

of course traffic is an issue on Randolph Rd., but it is not nearly as bad as traveling southeast from North Bethesda.

Decisions about capital projects are often made by elected officials listening to the loudest constituents. Projects get placed on the CIP and taken off based on politics. Elrich has made several questionable decisions regarding the CIP.

Who on earth is asking students and families to go on the ICC? That makes zero sense.[/quote]

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