Comments on just up the pike: east county buses: everything in transit? (updated...

Is this Ride On 21 Bus actually a helicopter in Ri...

2007-07-01T22:04:00.000-04:00

Is this Ride On 21 Bus actually a helicopter in Ride-On blue?

That's the only way it will get from downtown Silver Spring to the Colesville Post Office (New Hampshire and Wolf Drive) in 18 or 19 minutes during rush hour.

It doesn't surprise me that so few people ride tha...

2007-06-25T17:58:00.000-04:00

It doesn't surprise me that so few people ride that line... that is a huge distance and would take forever if you had to stop every few blocks. I would think you could go Glenmont to Ft. Totten and then out to Greenbelt faster.

Wheaton is east county, but still pretty far (15 to 45 minutes depending on traffic) from the large apt. buildings on 29. Better mass transit up and down 29, especially from NH to/past the Beltway is really important. Personally, I think there should be a redline spur that goes up to where the ICC will connect with Briggs-Chaney. That way people can park at BC and metro into the city from there rather than continuing to drive to either the Silver Spring, Glenmont, or Wheaton stations (i.e., cutting both N-S traffic and E-W traffic accross Randolph and University).

I believe east county bus is convinient but at the...

2007-06-22T13:55:00.000-04:00

I believe east county bus is convinient but at the same time as mentioned it can be inconvinient. As a resident of Fairland who is one of many passengers losing the Z6 on Monday in our neighborhood due to service cuts, east county needs to look at the service and frequency of its buses. That can start by getting rid of routes like the C7,9 for more money to begin these improvements. As for the Ride On 21, I think Montgomery County has the right idea by bringing new service that will enter areas that have never had bus service but at the same time, when areas already have acceptable bus service why make the ride longer for passengers?

I was not aware there was ever planned rail transi...

2007-06-22T12:24:00.000-04:00

I was not aware there was ever planned rail transit for the US 29 corridor. I was under the assumption that much of the high-density development was planned as the Montgomery County part of the I-95 corridor city (now Konterra)and not a corridor city in itself.

Could anyone lead me to documents that mention that a ligh rail route for the corridor was planned prior to most of the development there.

I think there will be a day when a US 29 light rail is built, hopefully all the way to Columbia. Look at how much traffic there is on US 29 in the morning from Columbia and you know there is demand.