Silver Spring MD Transit Center Demolition Special

The 'Paul S. Sarbanes Silver Spring Transit Center'

Built stupidly upon the legitimate right of way of the vital North Central Freeway in downtown Silver Spring Maryland, this Transit Center boondoggle is 5x over budget ($26 million to $120 million), ridden with improper concrete construction, and may have to be torn down anyway.  It stands as a temporary monument of the 'if it's transit it has to be good/highways bad' without regard to design mentality.  Tear it down!

Also includes senseless real estate development encroachment upon the North Central Freeway right of way directly alongside the B&O Metropolitan Branch railroad corridor- a project politically botched during the 1960s near and following the assassination of the U.S. President who supported it, John F. Kennedy.

About the Jesuitical Sabotaging of the Washington, D.C. Freeways

keeping freeways far AWAY from key Roman Catholic Church properties

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2012/01/crafted-controversy-scuttling-of-jfks-b.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2007/02/sampling-of-attitudes-towards-dc-i-95.html


http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2010/09/washington-dcs-supreme-bridge-builder.html


http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2008/12/who-really-stopped-washington-dcs.html


http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/2011/07/up-front-hidden-in-plain-sight.html

Takoma D.C. Chock 2014

New insanity to wedge 200+ dwellings in the tight street network around the neck of Washington D.C.'s sole railroad-industrial northern radial transportation corridor, with parking garage area built within needed right of way enhancement.  Has the support of the moneyed organizations that are pro-development/indifferent to hostile to transportation.  To be voted upon today, March 27, 2014

Project impinges upon  existing WMATA station parking and transit potential of site, while adding traffic to the over-stressed narrow streets.

Parking garage area conflicts with the legitimate North Central Freeway/Grand Arc Mall Tunnel right of way.

Was voted unanimously by WMATA- leading support to the idea that WMATA perhaps should be abolished or folded into a comprehensive transportation related entity.

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/search/label/tunnelize%20the%20DC%20Metropolitan%20Branch%20RR%20corridor

http://www.takomametro.com/

CUA Chock Continued 3 ...

Idiotic chock of Washington D.C.'s main northern radial transport corridor also disregards need for 3rd MARC trackway.  See

www.actfortransit.org/archives/publications/TransitTimes-V28-1-Jan2014.pdf

This talks about the need for a THIRD railway track for MARC trains via the Metropolitan Branch corridor.   From the above actfortransit url:

Another project to pay attention to is a third track for the Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) Brunswick Line. CSX moves its freight trains in this corridor, and to move more passenger trains requires a third track. Add in that Frederick County is expected to grow 36% by 2040 (forecast from Metropolitan Washington Council of Government), and it is clear we must have more capacity. We need to make sure we reserve right-of-way and ask the state to start putting in a third track to accommodate more passenger traffic. In addition,we need to keep an eye on the money − money spent to widen I-270 [sic- fight the cigarette protectionist 'drug war' pharmacratic Inquisition] would be money not available for transit.

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2013/12/cua-chock-continued-2.html

CUA Chock Continued 2 ...

Misguided proposal to sell off WMATA Red line Bus Bay Area, in opposition to WMATA's sensible point to NOT sell off this property...

 http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/21118/brookland-neighbors-ask-metro-for-development-with-a-side-of-green/#comments

 http://brooklandbridge.com/8424/save-the-brookland-green-and-support-smart-development-sign-this-petition/

Yet to be approved comment at "The Brookland Bridge"

Don’t build so close to the railroad- such is Washington D.C.’s only main transportation corridor and is the legitimate location for I-95, with Madrid Spain showing the proper way for such a highway as a park covered tunnel.

http://cos-mobile.blogspot.com/2011/05/madrid-spain-reclaims-riverfront.html
http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2008/02/extending-legacy-with-grand-arc.html
http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/search/label/Demolition%20Specials

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Tunnel box allows superior space utilization for freeway and adjoining development, with sound & pollution containment of tunnel ideal for accommodating greater real estate development within close proximity

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2013/12/cua-chock-continued.html

Another Reminder of the Lack of Road Network Redundancy In and Near Our nation's CapitAl

CUA Chock Continued ...

 ... more of this chock the transport corridor, right in what's supposedly the Nation's CapitAl City, chocking the un-built I-95 corridor alongside Catholic University of America

 

 http://brooklandbridge.com/8362/9th-kearney-street-development-meeting-thursday-evening/

Such properties are part of a transport corridor being irresponsibly sold off for ill placed real estate development.

Tunnel box allows superior space utilization for freeway and adjoining development, with sound & pollution containment of tunnel ideal for accommodating greater real estate development within close proximity

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2013/01/artsspace-cua-chock-continued.html