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March 19, 2018: PLEASE COME OUT TONIGHT !
Tonight is an opportunity to listen to and give candidates your opinion on many issues. We are hoping many of you come to Aspen Hill and offer your support for the Montrose Pkw East Project, this important project reduces traffic congestion on several east west roads, Randolph, by over 25% Twinbrook Pkw by approx. 32% this project also addresses the dangerous situation at the CSX railroad crossing. This crossing has been designated the most dangerous in the State. Please come and show your support for the Mid County area.
The Aspen Hill Civic Association and the Aspen Hill Friends of the Library will be hosting a candidate forum for the County Executive race in Montgomery County. This will be a great opportunity to hear from the candidates who hope to fill this important office, and perhaps even meet them and let them know what you think.
The forum will be held on Monday, March 19th at 7:30pm in the Community Room of the Aspen Hill Library (4407 Aspen Hill Road, Rockville, MD 20853). We hope you will be able to make it!
The Montrose Road - Randolph Road railroad crossing is used by pedestrians, students, motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses and emergency personnel. It is ranked as the most dangerous railroad crossing in the entire state of Maryland. Councilmembers Roger Berliner, Tom Hucker and Hans Riemer want to delay funding of the project that would create an overpass over this railroad. Should County residents have a safe way to cross the railroad tracks or should they continue using the most dangerous railroad crossing in the State of Maryland?
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Thank you so much! My son took an MCPS school-bus to the Tilden Holding School and I cringed when I realized that the bus driver elected to pass through that crossing instead of taking the route on Nicholson.
ReplyDeleteThis crossing is also one that I think it's safer to avoid:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/traffic/transit/A-Long-Awaited-Whistlestop-for-Montco-Neighborhood-105356073.html (2010)
The Forest Glen Road railroad crossing in Silver Spring is Maryland’s first Quiet Zone. As of Nov. 1, trains will no longer be required to blow their horns as they approach the crossing.
Under a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rule that went into effect in 2005, trains are required to sound their horns when approaching street-level crossings. But the Forest Glen Road crossing, about a quarter of a mile north of I-495, has minimal pedestrian and vehicle traffic and heavy train traffic. The tracks are used by CSX Transportation, Amtrak and MARC commuter trains.
Almost 60 trains a day pass through the road and rail intersection. That’s a lot of whistles.
Thank you Janis, Within hours of you posting this Ike Leggett revised his CIP to include the Montrose Pkw, he is delaying it for one additional year because additional engineering will be required to accommodate a widening of the Hiker biker path that is part of the Project. Janis you and George Leventhal deserve a special Thanks as without your and Georges Help I believe Mr. Berliner would have been able to delay Montrose 3 years or possibly kill it. Thank You
ReplyDeleteAs of Sept. 1st 2019 I moved close to the this rail crossing. What are the current plans for this crossing?
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