Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 15:10     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Anonymous wrote:Omg this inequality sh*t is out of control. What’s next? Air is more polluted in poor areas?


Yes. Yes it is.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 12:23     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Omg this inequality sh*t is out of control. What’s next? Air is more polluted in poor areas?


Yes, because making sure everyone has something as simple as a smooth road to drive on just so they they can take their kids to school or drive to work is outrageous. Must be nice living in Clarksburg where you never have to worry about issues like this. Even Silver Spring is a web of hypocrisy. Silver spring is a mosaic of wealthier neighborhoods and poorer neighborhoods and you can see almost like night and day the major differences in road quality between different neighborhoods in Silver Spring. Wealthier hoods have better roads. You can easily tell the gigantic differences in road quality when you drive from Silver Spring into Takoma Park as well. Even if you live in nicer parts of silver spring, you often have to drive over horrible roads in the browner parts of SS, so addressing the big disparities in road quality and infrastructure would end up helping everyone anyway.

What happened in Takoma Park and Silver Spring is that because those politicians controlled the county budget, they used special funds through the rain tax for road improvements and street beautification in and around the wealthy Sligo Creek neighborhoods. It was a way to sidestep normal county road maintenance prioritization.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 12:19     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why is it that areas like Potomac, Bethesda, Rockville, Travaliah, etc. all have decent functioning roads in MoCo while many parts around Silver Spring, Wheaton, etc. have some of the worst roads imaginable? Holy Toledo has anyone ever driven around parts of Silver Spring closer to the border of PG? It is an unmitigated disaster worse than driving on the surface of the moon. Main roads are like a 3rd world country, and man neighborhoods have atrocious quality streets. Why does the county never have this problem in the much whiter and wealthier areas? I'll tell you why, because of racist road inequalities that perpetuate systemic racism. The county spends all of its money to make sure infrastructure is functional in all of the rich white areas while all of the brown people get stuck with roads that may as well be like they are from Mogadishu. It imparts more costs on people who are already poor because they end up having to pay more often for repairs to their cars from having to drive so often on the worst roads in the world. It's really time for the county to address this dispicable inequality. Pave the damn roads in the eastern half of the county already.


Depends on the roads. Anything with a route number, like Route 29 (Colesville) or Route 97 (Georgia) or Route 410 (East West Highway) are the State's responsibility and the County has no say. The rest of the side streets are county responsibility.

The problem for the east county is that there has been no private investment in decades. When the subdivisions were built, the developers covered the cost of the roads. No new private investment means no capital investment in roads.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 12:17     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Omg this inequality sh*t is out of control. What’s next? Air is more polluted in poor areas?


Yes, because making sure everyone has something as simple as a smooth road to drive on just so they they can take their kids to school or drive to work is outrageous. Must be nice living in Clarksburg where you never have to worry about issues like this. Even Silver Spring is a web of hypocrisy. Silver spring is a mosaic of wealthier neighborhoods and poorer neighborhoods and you can see almost like night and day the major differences in road quality between different neighborhoods in Silver Spring. Wealthier hoods have better roads. You can easily tell the gigantic differences in road quality when you drive from Silver Spring into Takoma Park as well. Even if you live in nicer parts of silver spring, you often have to drive over horrible roads in the browner parts of SS, so addressing the big disparities in road quality and infrastructure would end up helping everyone anyway.


Then.move.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 12:16     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
The premise of this post is false and misunderstands a few things.

First, some of the absolute worst and lowest quality roads in this county are in Potomac, Poolesville and Boyd’s/Dickerson areas. You may want to venture out there some time because big parts of the agriculture reserve have been abandoned by the county in terms of government services, including road maintenance.

Second, the county is so adamantly refusing to maintain roads in the northwestern part of the county that many roads have been officially designated as “rustic roads”, which is a way to spin this divestment as a good thing.

Third, where there are newer quality roads, the only reason why they exist is because developers have paid for them through impact fees, which explains what is going on around Travilah. The county legally cannot collect those fees and use them for other purposes. So if there are poorly maintained roads in Takoma Park/Silver Spring, the easiest way to get that rectified is through getting your neighborhood upzoned so that a developer will come in and build some multi family housing.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 11:26     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Anonymous wrote:Why is it that areas like Potomac, Bethesda, Rockville, Travaliah, etc. all have decent functioning roads in MoCo while many parts around Silver Spring, Wheaton, etc. have some of the worst roads imaginable? Holy Toledo has anyone ever driven around parts of Silver Spring closer to the border of PG? It is an unmitigated disaster worse than driving on the surface of the moon. Main roads are like a 3rd world country, and man neighborhoods have atrocious quality streets. Why does the county never have this problem in the much whiter and wealthier areas? I'll tell you why, because of racist road inequalities that perpetuate systemic racism. The county spends all of its money to make sure infrastructure is functional in all of the rich white areas while all of the brown people get stuck with roads that may as well be like they are from Mogadishu. It imparts more costs on people who are already poor because they end up having to pay more often for repairs to their cars from having to drive so often on the worst roads in the world. It's really time for the county to address this dispicable inequality. Pave the damn roads in the eastern half of the county already.


Depends on the roads. Anything with a route number, like Route 29 (Colesville) or Route 97 (Georgia) or Route 410 (East West Highway) are the State's responsibility and the County has no say. The rest of the side streets are county responsibility.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 11:20     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Anonymous wrote:Omg this inequality sh*t is out of control. What’s next? Air is more polluted in poor areas?

Since you asked, yes, because there are fewer trees in poor areas.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 11:18     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Anonymous wrote:Omg this inequality sh*t is out of control. What’s next? Air is more polluted in poor areas?


Yes, because making sure everyone has something as simple as a smooth road to drive on just so they they can take their kids to school or drive to work is outrageous. Must be nice living in Clarksburg where you never have to worry about issues like this. Even Silver Spring is a web of hypocrisy. Silver spring is a mosaic of wealthier neighborhoods and poorer neighborhoods and you can see almost like night and day the major differences in road quality between different neighborhoods in Silver Spring. Wealthier hoods have better roads. You can easily tell the gigantic differences in road quality when you drive from Silver Spring into Takoma Park as well. Even if you live in nicer parts of silver spring, you often have to drive over horrible roads in the browner parts of SS, so addressing the big disparities in road quality and infrastructure would end up helping everyone anyway.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 11:09     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Omg this inequality sh*t is out of control. What’s next? Air is more polluted in poor areas?
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 11:03     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Yes. That's why I drive a really old beater car. Saves me money and I don't worry so much about destroying the car on the local roads. MoCo really neglects portions of the eastern side of the county, even when sfhs here are selling for 500k+. Too many council members seemed to be holed up in TP or Bethesda.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 10:57     Subject: Re:Road inequality in MoCo
Anonymous wrote:I was literally just thinking this exact thing this morning as I navigated around deep potholes all the was to the grocery store in Silver Spring. It’s so annoying.



The roads around many parts of Piney Branch are just ridiculous. Utterly insane the USA has that quality of roads.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 10:55     Subject: Re:Road inequality in MoCo
I was literally just thinking this exact thing this morning as I navigated around deep potholes all the was to the grocery store in Silver Spring. It’s so annoying.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 10:55     Subject: Re:Road inequality in MoCo
Excuse my typos.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 10:55     Subject: Re:Road inequality in MoCo
Totally agree. I have a friend who lives on a street with a former council member. Their street is ends in a cup de sac. It’s been replaced twice since I’ve known her. My road hadn’t been reopened at all in the sane time. Definitely seems to be some favoritism.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2022 10:46     Subject: Road inequality in MoCo
Why is it that areas like Potomac, Bethesda, Rockville, Travaliah, etc. all have decent functioning roads in MoCo while many parts around Silver Spring, Wheaton, etc. have some of the worst roads imaginable? Holy Toledo has anyone ever driven around parts of Silver Spring closer to the border of PG? It is an unmitigated disaster worse than driving on the surface of the moon. Main roads are like a 3rd world country, and man neighborhoods have atrocious quality streets. Why does the county never have this problem in the much whiter and wealthier areas? I'll tell you why, because of racist road inequalities that perpetuate systemic racism. The county spends all of its money to make sure infrastructure is functional in all of the rich white areas while all of the brown people get stuck with roads that may as well be like they are from Mogadishu. It imparts more costs on people who are already poor because they end up having to pay more often for repairs to their cars from having to drive so often on the worst roads in the world. It's really time for the county to address this dispicable inequality. Pave the damn roads in the eastern half of the county already.