In February, I mentioned that the budget for trails was being cut in Montgomery County's FY19 Capital Budget and six-year FY19-24 Capital Improvements Program (CIP). And in June that they were going to delay the expansion of the Montrose parkway and to defer adding two lanes to Goshen Road South in Gaithersburg until after 2024 to free up money for transit, pedestrian and bicycle projects.
The CIP has several other bicycle projects in it that I didn't mention, including a delay for the Met Branch Trail, so there's a list below.
- Build an on-street route for the Capital Crescent Trail through the Bethesda CBD and funding for the Bethesda Loop Trail identified in the recently approved Bethesda Downtown Sector Plan. It will consist of
- protected bike lanes on Woodmont Avenue between Norfolk Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue ($1,860,000). Completion in FY21
- protected bike lanes on Montgomery Avenue between Woodmont Avenue and Pearl Street ($1,004,000). Completion in FY21
- and bike lanes on Norfolk Avenue/Cheltenham Drive between Woodmont Avenue and Pearl Street ($91,000) and on Pearl Street between Cheltenham Drive and Montgomery A venue ($45,000). Completion in FY20.
- Widen the MacArthur Boulevard shared-use path to 8', widen the roadway to 26' to allow sufficient width for on-road biking, and provide a 5' -wide buffer between the road and the shared-use path for the 2.1 mile stretch between Oberlin Avenue and the District of Columbia boundary. Completion in 2022.
- Extend the Metropolitan Branch Trail north along the CSX tracks beneath Burlington Avenue (MD 410) and next to Selim Road to Georgia A venue. The final phase will have the trail cross Georgia A venue on a new bridge and continue along the tracks to the Silver Spring Transit Center. Completion delayed to 2022.
- Cycle tracks on Fenton Street and Dixon Avenue-by FY22
- Construction of the missing 1.7-mile bikepath link along the south side of Needwood Road between the Shady Grove Metro Station on the west and the ICC Bike Trail on the east. Completion in FY19
- Reconfigure Bradley Boulevard between Goldsboro Road and Wilson Lane to have a 5' -wide bike lane in each direction, an
8'-wide shared-use path on the northeast side, and a 5'-wide sidewalk on the southwest side. Completion in FY26. - Widen the 1.1-mile segment of Snouffer School Road from near Woodfield Road to Centerway Road to a 5-lane arterial (two lanes in each direction with a continuous center tum-lane) with 5½'-wide bike lanes, an 8'-wide hiker-biker path on the north side. Completion Fall 2019
- Build a muli-use path along the 3.3-mile stretch of Seven Locks Road between Montrose Road and Bradley Boulevard in Potomac. Completion in 2024.
- Add bikelanes to Clarksburg Road. Two projects. Completion 2020 and 2022.
- BPPA subprojects in Wheaton and Glenmont. Completed by FY24.
- Veirs Mill BPPA projects by FY25.
- Protected bike lanes along Marinelli Road in White Flint by FY19
- Increase funding for the Bikeway Minor Projects Program to provide more substantial construction improvements. Funding is planned to build bikeways along sections of Avery Road, Emory Lane, Muncaster Mill Road, Executive Boulevard, Dr. Bird Road, Riffle Ford Road, Layhill Road, and a Washington Grove Connector Trail.
- Complete the construction of Frederick Road Bike Path ( a new 2.5-mile-long 10'-wide bike path along the west side of Frederick Road (MD 355) from Stringtown Road in Clarksburg to the existing hiker-biker trail on MD 355 near Milestone Manor Lane). Completion in 2020.
- a 3.5-mile-long 10-12'-wide shared-use path that would loop through the Life Science Center, the to-be-redeveloped Public Safety Training Academy property, the future Johns Hopkins development, and the Crown Farm. Completion in FY26
- A bike/ped passageway between the Forest Glen Metro Station and the east side of Georgia A venue. Completion in FY25
- Protected bike lane on Goldsboro Road in Bethesda between River Road and MacArthur Boulevard.
- A shallow hiker-biker underpass beneath Rockville Pike to connect Walter Reed to the existing west-side Medical Center Metro entrance, the station's bus bays, and the NIH campus. Completion in summer 2020.
- The MD 355-Clarksburg Shared Use Path, along the east side of MD 355 between Stringtown Road and Snowden Farm Parkway. Start in 2024
- Build the new Capital Crescent Trail and the Silver Spring Green Trail. Completion 2022.
- Vision Zero - improves trail crossings throughout the County as part of the County's Vision Zero action plan to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries.
- Continue funding for Hard Surface Trail Renovations, Enterprise Facility Improvements, Energy Conservation, ADA
Compliance, Planned Lifecycle Asset Replacement, and Minor New Construction projects. - Build an 8' - wide hiker-biker trail along the east side of Falls Road (MD 189) from River Road to Dunster Road, about four miles (this project is again being delayed). Completed in 2025, at best.
In addition there is a plan to study extending the rebuilt MacArthur Boulevard Bikeway to Angler's Inn.
More details can be found here.
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