Action Committee for Transit Candidate Questionnaire

Pro-Purple Line yard sign at Philadelphia Ave. & Fenton Street
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It might be a bit premature to list this, because candidates haven't had a chance to respond to this, but Montgomery County's Action Committee for Transit has released three candidate questionnaires for this election cycle:

County Council and County Executive Candidates

Candidates for State legislature

Candidates for U.S. House and U.S. Senate

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I would have included a separate questionnaire for Governor. Even though we know how the respective candidates support or don't support transit, it's important to ask the questions and put them on the record.

Similarly, while ACT of course is a transit organization, it would have been good to see questions on the survey form concerning complete streets, maybe biking and pedestrian issues, and some questions on Growth Policy and additional questions on how Montgomery County can transition from thinking of itself as a suburban, auto-dominated place, to a community more concerned about livability and compact development.

(See on the latter, "Council wrestles with traffic growth puzzle" from the Gazette.)

See, for me, these questionnaires are also exercises in emphasizing the importance of these issues, and demonstrating that there is a constituency that is committed and concerned about it.