Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Friendship Heights and Chevy Chase Village pending walking signal battles are looking promising.
The Chevy Chase Village Traffic Committee and The Friendship Heights Transportation Management District Advisory Committee are both working with transportation officials to install safer walk signals for their communities. Here is a timeline of all fatal accidents in Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Committee member Jan Acton’s diligent research afforded her the opportunity to get the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers onboard to send their request to the Maryland Highway Administration, Patch reported earlier last year. Last July, the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) issued a letter to Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers Chair Patricia Baptiste stating that due to the low volume of human traffic a revamped …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
The Maryland Transit Administration has released a few preliminary images of what the Purple Line and Capital Crescent Trail bridges spanning Connecticut Avenue could look like.
Preliminary images of what the Purple Line bridge over Connecticut Avenue could look like recently were released by the Maryland Transit Administration. The current design calls for separate light rail and Capital Crescent Trail bridges spanning Connecticut Avenue, along with a switchback connection from the Capital Crescent Trail to Rock Creek Trail north of the Purple Line and east of Rock Creek. The bridges will be designed to be compatible with the park setting, according to transportation administration planners. The Purple Line station at Connecticut Avenue will be above-grade, they added. Right-of-way acquisition and final design phases begin this fall. Construction is slated to begin in 2015, and the Purple Line is scheduled to …
Friday, April 26, 2013
Lane closures on Connecticut Avenue between the Capital Beltway and Manor Road take place Friday night, April 26, into Saturday morning as State Highway Administration crews resurface that section of the road.
Lane closures on Connecticut Avenue between the Capital Beltway and Manor Road take place Friday night, April 26, into Saturday morning as State Highway Administration crews resurface that section of the road. "The far right lane on southbound MD 185 will close at 7 p.m., then the far right lane on northbound MD 185 at 8 p.m. SHA will close a second lane on southbound MD 185 at 10 p.m. and then a second lane on northbound MD 185 at 11 p.m.," according to a SHA news statement. Weather permitting, all lanes will be back open to traffic by 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 27. The work is part of the Bethesda Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) intersection improvement project, the news statement added.
Monday, April 8, 2013
The fiber optic monitoring system meant to warn WSSC of impending breaks in the water main did not fail, WSSC engineers said, Bethesda Now reported.
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission engineers still do not know what caused the massive water main break on March 18 at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Chevy Chase Lake Drive, but they say that the fiber optic monitoring system installed in the pipes in 2010 did not fail, Bethesda Now reported. The monitoring system detects only the sounds of snapping steel wires in the concrete pipes, but as the steel wires did not snap before the break, the monitoring system could not detect the impending break, WSSC chief engineer Gary Gumm told the Montgomery County Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee on Monday morning, Bethesda Now added. But, "[that] is a distinction however that has very little comfort to our community …
Friday, March 22, 2013
WSSC hopes to have the repaired line back in service by the end of the weekend.
Repairs to the 60-inch-in-diameter water main that burst Monday night on Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase are nearly complete. A new pipe section was put in place Thursday, and the grout in the pipe joints cured overnight. Early Friday morning, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission crews "slowly opened a valve to begin filling the isolated stretch of pipe," according to a statement on the WSSC website. On Friday, WSSC crews were slated to "[flush] the repaired line during the day, which is part of the standard decontamination process to ensure water quality, before putting the transmission main back into service," the statement said. The Acoustic Fiber Optic monitoring system was re-installed yesterday, The Washington Post reported. …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Water restrictions are in place in Montgomery and Prince George's counties until repairs to the Chevy Chase Lake water main are complete, which could take several days.
Update, 1 p.m., Thursday, March 21: Repairs to the 60-inch water main that burst Monday night in Chevy Chase continued on Thursday. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission crews removed the damaged 20-foot section of the pipe and are working to weld a new section in place, according to a WSSC statement issued at noon Thursday. "Once repairs to the pipe are complete later this afternoon it will take several more days for the work to conclude," the statement read. Only the right-hand northbound lane of Connecticut Avenue between Dunlop Street and Manor Road in Chevy Chase Lake remained closed Thursday. Mandatory water restrictions continued Thursday for Montgomery and Prince George's counties. "There is evidence that [water] consumption is …
Check out these shots of the 30-foot geyser that erupted from a ruptured water main captured by a Patch blogger.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Two northbound lanes on Connecticut Avenue are open after a ruptured 60-inch main sent water gushing three stories high Monday.
Update, 1 p.m., Thursday, March 21: Repairs to the 60-inch water main that burst Monday night in Chevy Chase continued on Thursday. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission crews removed the damaged 20-foot section of the pipe and are working to weld a new section in place, according to a WSSC statement issued at noon Thursday. "Once repairs to the pipe are complete later this afternoon it will take several more days for the work to conclude," the statement read. Only the right-hand northbound lane of Connecticut Avenue between Dunlop Street and Manor Road in Chevy Chase Lake remained closed Thursday. Mandatory water restrictions continued Thursday for Montgomery and Prince George's counties. "There is evidence that [water] consumption is …
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Many Chevy Chase, DC, residents are frustrated that no neighborhood commission review is required for a 90-foot tall apartment building planned for Connecticut Avenue NW at Military Road.
The prospect of a glass apartment building rising up on Connecticut Avenue NW in Chevy Chase, DC—and the heretofore lack of opportunity for residents to voice concerns about the project to developers—brought out between 200 and 300 residents at a community meeting last week at the Chevy Chase Community Center, The Washington Post and Greater Greater Washington reported. The property in question—at 5333 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC—is owned by Calvin Cafritz Enterprises and has been zoned for dense development for more than 30 years, WJLA reported. But, because the project is considered a "matter-of-right" project (because it stays within its zoning regulations), "it needs no zoning approval nor is there a 'statuary requirement for …
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Residents say the tall building planned for the vacant lot on Connecticut Avenue NW between Military Road and Kanawha Street is incompatible with the neighborhood.
A tall apartment building planned for Connecticut Avenue NW at Military Road has been in the works for years, but that hasn't softened the attitudes of many Chevy Chase, DC, residents toward the development, which—they say—is incompatible with the site. The property—at 5333 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC—is owned by Calvin Cafritz Enterprises and has been zoned for dense development for more than 30 years, WJLA reported. The 5333 Connecticut Avenue Coalition's website includes an image of what developers are planning for the property. From the illustration, the building appears to be nine or 10 stories tall. (The site is zoned to allow a 90-foot-tall residential building, The Washington Post reported.) Other tall apartment buildings …
More Buses, No Purple Line.
9:51 pm on Sunday, May 5, 2013
Do I see stairs? That's a good step. It sure is better then building a bridge, only to have the crosswalk put under it - like the crescent trail bridge on River Road. Please, before someone gets killed, remove the crosswalk on River Road. Anybody who needs to cross the street can walk one block in either direction and use the crosswalk at a light. (much safer). Actually, I hear a park is being … more ›