Transportation
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Francis Scott Key Bridge – Wes Moore Timeline Leaves Questions
Read more: Francis Scott Key Bridge – Wes Moore Timeline Leaves QuestionsFirst and foremost, our sincere prayers are with the families of the victims of this event. And not for one second did we ever doubt that our first responders would turn their backs on an emergency. They are like buffalo – they face the storm straight on. However, we are a bit, shall we say…
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Revisiting Those “Urbanist Champions” on the MoCo Council, Nearly Six Years Late
Read more: Revisiting Those “Urbanist Champions” on the MoCo Council, Nearly Six Years Late“Urbanist Hero of the Week” proclaimed the blog Greater Greater Washington (ggwash.org) back in December of 2018. The writer, Sanjida Rangwala, praised newly elected Councilmember Evan Glass for taking the bus on his first day at work. This council includes three new at-large members—Evan Glass, Will Jawando, and Gabe Albornoz—as well a new member for…
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CleanSlate Onion Edition: County Exec Elrich Invites All to “MoCo Riderzz Official Street Car Takeover 2024” for “Equity in Car Burnouts”
Read more: CleanSlate Onion Edition: County Exec Elrich Invites All to “MoCo Riderzz Official Street Car Takeover 2024” for “Equity in Car Burnouts”Fresh off the New Hampshire Avenue, Takoma Park street takeover on February 10th, Montgomery County Exec Marc Elrich has invited the county to celebrate the next “street takeover” with his “MoCo Riderzz”. Details were still forthcoming about where and when the street takeover would occur, but the County Exec promised he’d “put that notice out…
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Roads into Bike-Paths
Read more: Roads into Bike-PathsWhat will happen next regarding Beach Drive? For some years now portions of Beach Drive, both in DC and MoCo, are closed for certain days: cars prohibited in order to give bikers a wide-open road and so we exacerbate the motorist versus bicyclist polarization, already long past the point of triggering random road rages. I…
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Good Luck Crossing the Street
Read more: Good Luck Crossing the StreetEasy solutions do not exist for making our roads user friendly all at the same time for drivers in a hurry, bicyclists and pedestrians. In less than 100 years many roads in Montgomery County have evolved from dirt lane through two lane black top into six lane with median and the bigger the road the…
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More on Speed Cameras
Read more: More on Speed CamerasThe following was submitted by a reader of CleanSlateMoCo after reading Following the Science on Street Safety. On September 18. 2023 the Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee held a hearing on automated traffic enforcement. When you hear the elected officials endorsing cameras, rather than gathering comments, it says a lot. Only a few pro-camera people were…
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Following the Science on Street Safety
Read more: Following the Science on Street SafetyI had the good fortune to discuss street safety with a national expert on the matter, Professor Eric Guerra from the University of Pennsylvania. He co-authored a recent study “Do Denser Neighborhoods Have Safer Streets? Population Density and Traffic Safety in the Philadelphia Region.” Professor Guerra is currently the director of the Cooperative Mobility for…
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Personal Thoughts on Street Safety
Read more: Personal Thoughts on Street SafetyThe lead image was photographed close to the Montrose Road offramp of the I-270. There is nothing more stirring, jolting, or heartbreaking than driving by a small memorial marking where a fatal accident occurred. We see them on Old Georgetown Road, Georgia Avenue, and interstate onramps. Was the victim a careless pedestrian looking at an…
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If You Own a Tesla, You’re Not a Racist
Read more: If You Own a Tesla, You’re Not a RacistWhen I see a Tesla, I emote four feelings that, surprisingly for me, do not contradict each other: pride (I am a member of a species that can conceive of such machines), admiration (for the investors, managers, and workers who make these machines), optimism (tailpipe emissions are slowly going somewhere else), and vituperative jealousy (McMahon…
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MoCo’s Sierra Club: It’s not about the trees, it’s about the control
Read more: MoCo’s Sierra Club: It’s not about the trees, it’s about the controlYou’re a Clarksburg parent of two young children. You spend your first 20-minute commute dropping them off at Snowden Farm Elementary School, and now you start your next 60-minute commute into Tyson’s Corner (total 80 minutes). After a day of “work” (in the DC sense of the word), you start your 75-minute commute back to…