tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post6944827115345114095..comments2024-02-28T11:29:36.860-05:00Comments on just up the pike: what's up the pike: i hit somebody's car todayDan Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594208011755406956noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-44666749690638506832008-07-18T15:39:00.000-04:002008-07-18T15:39:00.000-04:00Winchester Homes was compensated for their tract, ...Winchester Homes was compensated for their tract, right?<BR/><BR/>The State Highway Administration has tentatively scheduled hearings for summer's end, on the matter of a re-alignment and upgrade of the MD-198/MD-28 route from Georgia Avenue at least eastward to Burtonsville. <BR/><BR/>Allow me to draw the attention to the incredible foul-up in Redland, for example. <BR/><BR/>Between Muncaster/Redland Road and Shady Grove Road, along Muncaster Mill Road, is a new high-density townhomes/condos cluster. It's a nice touch and it fits in well with the established clusters of small businesses in the two longstanding shopping centers. <BR/><BR/>However, that whole stretch has the exact problems as Burtonsville, which is to say, too much traffic on roads that are too small and with no place to relocate the roads to make the place more pedestrian-friendly. The only place that the roads could have gone, the logical place to reposition the intersection, is now chock-full of townhomes. <BR/>I invite the reader to <A HREF="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=39.147269,-77.143722&spn=0.020069,0.033045&t=h&z=15" REL="nofollow">see the googlemap satellite view</A> and consider how Redland is one of the worst cases imaginable of traffic-flow design. <BR/><BR/>Imagine, if you will, that the townhomes have to be seized under eminent domain proceedings, in order to untangle the hideous mess that is rush-hour Redland. Imagine how much more money it would be worth than empty land! Imagine the appreciation in value. Imagine the lawyer's fees. <BR/><BR/>Now, imagine that Winchester Homes tries the same thing at MD-198 and Peach Orchard Road...Thomas Hardmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07951423786343852055noreply@blogger.com