Silverspringtrails.com reports that the Silver Spring bike station may not be dead after all.
M-NCPPC staff are recommending that space be reserved in Jughandle Park for the bike station. The south east corner of Colesville Road and Wayne Avenue has been used as a jughandle for buses to turn into the transit center bus bays. The jughandle will soon be closed to buses when transit center construction begins, and this area will be converted into a small park, appropriately dubbed "Jughandle Park". It is proposed that an area at the rear of this triangular property (at the side nearest the Discovery Building) be reserved for a future 1500 sq. ft. bike station.
The Post makes it sound more definitive:
An area where buses now enter will be replaced by a 12,000-square-foot park that may eventually contain a 1,500-square-foot bike station, said Tom Autrey, supervisor in the transportation planning division for the Planning Board.
The Examiner is less sure with a stop on the Purple Line as a possible use of the space.
The concrete ‘‘jug handle” currently at Wayne Avenue and Colesville Road would be turned into green space, though Hanson said it would not officially be called a ‘‘park” in order to allow the proposed Bi-County Transitway link from Bethesda to New Carrollton, known as the Purple Line, to potentially pass through the site.
The transit center will have bike racks and access to local trails
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