Kensignton Sector Plan

The Montgomery County Planning Department has begun a comprehensive update of the 1978 Town of Kensington and Vicinity Sector Plan. A draft of that plan was completed over the spring, and presented to the county council in July. It's available here.

Because the town of Kensington is self-sufficient, the kind of place where you can park your car on Friday after work and not get into it again until Monday morning or even live without car because of the convenient MARC station

The draft calls for improvements to pedestrian and bicycle access across Connecticut Avenue, connecting the two sides of Howard Avenue and the rest of town to the MARC Station. Strategies include a recommendation to slow traffic on Connecticut Avenue to 30 miles per hour, narrowing roads and upgrading lighting.

To a large extent, the plan relies on the Countywide Bikeways Functional Master Plan for bike routes; but as you can see for the bikeways map it covers the city with signed, shared roadways and adds one path (a sidepath along Connecticut Avenue). The bikeway system would connect to the Rock Creek Park Trail and the Matthew Henson Trail and create a third crossing of the railroad tracks near the MARC station. 

It looks pretty good. I've biked around Kensington a few times and always found it easy (except for Connecticut). I didn't know there was a connection from the Rock Creek Park Trail to Plyers Mill Road.

The one thing I might add, is a trail going south alongside the rail line with eventual connection to/extension of the Met Branch Trail at Lyttonsville.

Comments

[JTS]

hey washcycle...funny you should post this. I need to get to kensington this wknd for an essential errand and want to do it by bike (never been there before). Any recommendations on doing it from DC?

[Washcycle]

Rock Creek Park Trail/Beech Drive to Kensington Parkway is how I usually do it.

[JTS]

thanks!