Incomplete Streets

The Montgomery County Planning Board says a companion bicycle-walking trail along the Inter County Corridor would be bad for the environment.

Crazy. What about all those cars?

For more information or to sign up to testify at the July 10th (Thursday) hearing, check out the WABA action page: ICC Trail: Your Help Needed Today!

Montgomery County also is not including a bicycle station in the Sarbanes Transit Center in Silver Spring (although they do plan to have a bicycle station nearby, although it is not yet funded).

I think that suburban commenters on the Washington Post article, "Drivers Feeling Shunned by D.C.," should feel pretty good about Montgomery County's difficulty in balancing non-automobility with automobile-centricity.

Even the issue about free parking at Montgomery County libraries takes for granted that people will drive. What about free transit passes to people who don't drive to libraries?

See from the Gazette:

-- Library board opposes obstacles to patrons (letter by the Chair)
-- Paid library parking backlash? (letter)