Thursday, January 17, 2013
Montgomery County police have no plans to move a Jones Bridge Road speed camera that, a district court judge ruled, is improperly placed.
The Montgomery County Police Department has no plans to remove a speed camera in the 4300 block of Jones Bridge Road that a district court judge ruled was improperly placed. Officer Rebecca Innocenti told Patch that "there will be no specific changes made to the [speed camera] program" and there are "no plans to remove that camera in the area of Jones Bridge [Road]"—between Wisconsin and Connecticut avenues. The ruling resulted from a court session in which a $40 speeding fine—issued on Sept. 5, 2012, with the help of photos from the camera—was invalidated by District Court Judge John Moffett, according to a police department statement disputing the ruling. The fine was issued to attorney Robin Ficker—who has a law office in Bethesda—and …
Monday, January 14, 2013
A $40 speed camera fine issued on Sept. 5, 2012, was invalidated on Monday by the district court, but the county police department disagrees with the invalidation.
A district court judge has ruled that the speed camera in the 4300 block of Jones Bridge Road in Bethesda (between Connecticut and Wisconsin avenues) was improperly placed, according to the Montgomery County Police Department, which said it disagreed with the ruling. A $40 speed camera fine issued on Sept. 5, 2012, to attorney Robin Ficker—who has a law office in Bethesda—was invalidated Monday by District Court Judge John Moffett, who ruled the camera was placed improperly, according to a police department press release disputing the ruling. According to the Maryland Code, a speed-monitoring system may be placed on a highway in a residential district with a maximum posted speed limit of 35 mph (the speed limit must have been established …
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
This is the second set of funds released for specific transportation improvements to help ease traffic problems on roads leading to the Bethesda medical campuses.
Improvements to the five-way intersection at Connecticut Avenue, Jones Bridge Road and Kensington Parkway in Chevy Chase are one step closer to reality with the recent release of $18.3 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Defense to the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration. The funds will help get this congested intersection—just south of the Capital Beltway—in better shape to serve nearby medical campuses (the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the National Naval Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health). Ever since Walter Reed moved to Bethesda in August 2011, traffic has been heavy in the area. "Our community is proud to be the home of the new Walter Reed National Military …
Friday, August 31, 2012
Jones Bridge Road lane closures will begin Sept. 6 and are expected to last two months.
Work will soon be underway on a Jones Bridge Road gate to Bethesda’s Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that will force intermittent lane closures on the thoroughfare for the next two months. Construction work has been completed at four of five of the base's gates, on Rockville Pike and Jones Bridge Road, county BRAC coordinator Phil Alperson wrote in an email. The federally-mandated Base Realignment and Closure process drew 2,500 new employees to the military hospital last year, and is expected to nearly double the amount of yearly visitors to 1 million. A host of projects are underway on and around the base to help mitigate traffic problems. “These gate upgrades will help address traffic in the area by working in concert with …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Newly-created traffic-calming islands on Jones Bridge Road may make the road safer for pedestrians to cross, but they're also causing damage to cars whose drivers say the islands are not well-marked.
Newly-created traffic-calming islands in the west-bound lane of Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, are the cause of much contention in the neighborhood. As part of the county's Jones Bridge Road Traffic Calming Project, the skinny traffic-calming islands have been added to the road to make the pedestrian crossing in front of the North Chevy Chase Elementary School safer. The skinny islands create a narrow passage—11 feet wide, WTOP reported—for vehicles, forcing drivers to slow down. "Traffic calming efforts like this have reduced speeding on arterial and primary residential roads by as much as 11 miles per hour," according to a recent post on the county's website. But, people who live near the traffic-calming islands say that the islands are…
Monday, January 2, 2012
Friends and family attended a vigil at the crash site Monday.
A vigil was held along Jones Bridge Road Monday for eighteen-year-old Kaitlin Marie Gallagher and 20-year-old Nicholas Scott Clayton, the passengers who were killed when the Chevrolet Trail Blazer they were riding in crashed into a tree in the early morning hours of Jan. 1. Gallagher, known to friends as Keke, was several months pregnant, ABC7 reports and friends at the vigil confirmed. Friends at the vigil confirmed to Patch that the group had been attending a New Year's Eve party in College Park before the crash, but Montgomery County Police are investigating those reports, according to ABC7. Police said that it's not yet known whether the driver, 22-year-old Roderick Brice, had been drinking. “At this scene, there were empty and full …
The accident occurred around 3 a.m. New Year's Day outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda.
Update, Jan 2., 10:46 a.m.: Eighteen-year-old Kaitlin Marie Gallagher and 20-year-old Nicholas Scott Clayton were killed when the Chevrolet Trail Blazer they were riding in crashed into a tree in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, Montgomery County police said in a statement Tuesday. Clayton was riding in the front passenger seat of the Trail Blazer and Gallagher was seated behind him in the right rear passenger seat. Police weren't able to determine the addresses of either Gallagher or Clayton. The driver, Roderick Eugene Brice II, 22, of the 12900 block of Clarks Crossing Drive in Clarksburg, was transported to Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore in serious condition. The other two passengers in the car, Conor John Hayes, 18, of the …
Kevin Hicks
11:38 am on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Regarding the cameras taking pictures every few seconds: I wrote to MCPD regarding a ticket I thought I was issued for a vehicle I had traded in. I provided the date and time I saw the camera flash, my license plate #, etc, and that I thought I was doing 38 in the 35 zone. They reviewed the tape and said I was not issued a ticket, and that the camera calibrates occasionally, taking multiple … more ›