Forum Addresses Fatal Pedestrian Crashes in Germantown, Gaithersburg
Advocacy group plans to host forum at Germantown Library on Jan. 26
Deadly crashes involving pedestrians in Germantown and Gaithersburg will be addressed at a public forum at Germantown Library later this month. The Action Committee for Transit (ACT) is hosting the event on Jan. 26, the transit advocacy group announced Wednesday. Barbara McCann, founder of the National Complete Streets Coalition, is the guest speaker. The forum was spurred by deadly collisions involving pedestrians upcounty. Germantown high school student Christina Morris-Ward was struck and killed by a car while crossing Germantown Road on her way to Seneca Valley High School on Oct. 31, 2012. In November, Yessenia Martinez Rivas was killed crossing Muddy Branch Road in Gaithersburg. The event also will address a Clarksburg neighborhood’s…
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Miriam Miller Wolk
1:50 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
I commute from Grosvenor into the city, so I was definitely affected by the service issues yesterday. Metro is missing the point. The delays weren't caused by the holiday schedule - they were caused by the decisions to single track on the northern end of the red line and close stations on the orange line. On a typical day, trains arriving at Grosvenor to Shady Grove are standing room only (which … more ›