Little Falls Parkway road diet ending, CCT to be re-routed to stoplight
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Many of you have probably seen this decision by the Montgomery County Planning Board to revert Little Falls Parkway to four lanes and divert the CCT to a nearby stoplight. It’s an astonishing move given the volume of bike and pedestrian traffic that goes through there on nice days. Some communities would see the trail as a resource to be enhanced but apparently it’s just an annoyance. Note well, it’s all our fault.
https://www.thewashcycle.com/2019/06/little-falls-parkway-.html
Citizens Coordinating Committee on Friendship Heights (CCCFH)… blames the cyclists for the problems
“A core problem is that the CCT has become a bicycle commuter route. It was never intended as such. This results in safety issues in conflicts with the pedestrians and runners on the trail and with the automobiles on the Little Falls Parkway at the Trail/Parkway intersection. Aggravating the safety issue is the disregard that so many bicyclists have for the rules of the road.
Constricting traffic on Little Falls Parkway to accommodate bicyclists is not at all an optimal solution to the safety issue”
Kenwood Citizen’s Association echoed this. The trail is “not a commuter trail”, they say…
Grr.
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