Action Committee for Transit

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We advocate for more & better transit; streets safe for everyone; & housing & land use policies to make this possible. A Montgomery County, Maryland, built for people and not for automobiles.

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Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 22d

This Rapid Response Flashing Beacon (RRFB) across Congressional Ln is ineffective because it does not solve the underlying problem: Congressional Ln is comically wide.

Looking along a very wide two-lane road at a marked crosswalk with an RRFB, between Congressional Plaza and Congressional North Plaza.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 22d

This Rapid Response Flashing Beacon (RRFB) across W Edmonston Dr is mostly good, although it does not account for drivers turning right from the Woodmont Park apartments or the Wintergreen Plaza shopping center.

Looking along a straight, not very narrow two-lane road toward a marked crosswalk with an RRFB, between bus stops, a garden apartment complex on the right, and a shopping center on the left. A buffered sidewalk is on the left, and there are trees in the sidewalk buffer.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 23d

Police did not say it's 1000 feet between marked crosswalks, but it seems relevant.

Google satellite hybrid map of a six-lane divided stroad, with a Costco on one side and garden apartments on the other, and it's 1000 feet between marked crosswalks.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 23d

Caffe Caruso in Utica!!!

Photograph looking down a street in Utica, NY with a dark green awning in the foreground and a sign hanging over the sidewalk "Caffe Caruso."

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 23d

Waited six months for his lunch to arrive at First Prize Mike's in Schenectady.

A photograph of a small brick building with a neon sign on top saying "First Prize Mike's"

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

MoCo MD people - want to do a small thing that makes a difference? Attend this on-line public hearing to say YES to sidewalks around the Manchester Place Purple Line station! Don't let the NO folks (if any) be the only ones there! (You might also ask why there has to be a public hearing for this.)

Maps showing the proposed new sidewalks near the Manchester Place Purple Line station. The caption is he project maps above depict the Manchester Place Station Sidewalk Proposals project vicinity maps, with several sidewalk limits being shown. To find more information about each of the sidewalks, please see plans and "Project Description".

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

It seems like for a while, MCDOT and MD SHA were putting in HAWK signals when they thought they needed to do *something* but they also thought they couldn't justify a regular traffic signal, based on cost and/or a signal warrant. 📷2009 MUTCD because that was the version at the time.

2009 Edition Chapter 4C. Traffic Control Signal Needs Studies
Section 4C.01 Studies and Factors for Justifying Traffic Control Signals

Standard:
01 An engineering study of traffic conditions, pedestrian characteristics, and physical characteristics of the location shall be performed to determine whether installation of a traffic control signal is justified at a particular location.

02 The investigation of the need for a traffic control signal shall include an analysis of factors related to the existing operation and safety at the study location and the potential to improve these conditions, and the applicable factors contained in the following traffic signal warrants:

Warrant 1, Eight-Hour Vehicular Volume
Warrant 2, Four-Hour Vehicular Volume
Warrant 3, Peak Hour
Warrant 4, Pedestrian Volume
Warrant 5, School Crossing
Warrant 6, Coordinated Signal System
Warrant 7, Crash Experience
Warrant 8, Roadway Network
Warrant 9, Intersection Near a Grade Crossing

03 The satisfaction of a traffic signal warrant or warrants shall not in itself require the installation of a traffic control signal.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

Springfield, Missouri, has this new HAWK signal on N Glenstone Ave (posted speed limit 40 mph/65 kph) north of US 66, which they are now ticketing pedestrians for not using. www.springfieldmo.gov/m/newsflash/...

Google Streetview of a new HAWK signal across a five-lane stroad. North Glenstone Avenue north of US 66, looking north. At least it's between intersections, if you don't count umpteen driveways. There is no median refuge. There are also no cars on the road in the Streetview image.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

It looks like that's a HAWK signal? This is MD SHA's new(ish) Alberto Duque Memorial HAWK signal across Layhill Rd/MD182 at the Glenmont Shopping Center, near the Glenmont Metro station.

Google Streetview of a HAWK signal across a divided six-lane road. A shopping center is on one side, and more commercial businesses plus a Metro station are on the other side. There is a walkway through the median.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

The pedestrian in this crash died. MCP1227002J: on Fri 5/29/26 9:59 am a 2019 Honda Pilot driver (47/F) accelerating while distracted by talking/listening to passenger/other non-motorist hit & fatally injured a pedestrian (74/F) at the Adventist White Oak Hospital main entrance-drop off area.

The covered walkway with marked crosswalk between the parking garage and the hospital entrance at White Oak Adventist Hospital on Healing Way. There are maybe two parking spaces next to the crosswalk, for patient drop-off. Photo from beyond the walkway, looking back towards the walkway and the hospital building. Photo from Potomac Valley Brick.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

From CM @kristinmink.bsky.social 's post on Facebook:

**$20,000 REWARD FOR SUCCESSFUL TIP IN HIT & RUN**
➡️ Edit to add: A neighbor with professional video tools has offered to enhance footage. Even if you’ve already shared footage with MCPD, please email it to me at the address below so I can share it with him (if you’d rather text or AirDrop, just let me know).
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Today, I am joining Nate Tinbite — former Student Member of the MCPS School Board — and many more members of Hanna Wegayehou’s family to canvass Woodmoor with flyers provided by MCPD.
Hanna, our longtime neighbor, Nate’s mom, and a 20-year public servant herself, was tragically struck and killed in a hit and run at Crestmoor Dr. & Colesville Road while walking in the crosswalk on Friday, June 19th between about 1pm and 1:20pm.
If you have a possible tip on the vehicle or potential footage of it driving through the neighborhood (possibly Crestmoor Dr., Lorain Ave., Brookmoor Dr.?) or north on Colesville Rd./29, where it went from there, please contact the police immediately.
☎️ MCPD tips: 1-866-411-8477, or scan the QR code in the flyer below.
PLEASE NOTE: Given the time of day, it seems fairly likely that the vehicle belongs to someone in the Woodmoor neighborhood or someone visiting someone in that neighborhood. The vehicle might NOT be damaged. Please share any possible leads.
MCPD is offering a $10,000 reward which Hanna’s family is matching for a total of $20,000 for a tip leading to the identification of the driver.
➡️ As always, feel free to reach out to me with any questions: Councilmember.Mink@montgomerycountymd.gov

Three photos of Hanna Wegayehou, alone and with her son, one photo of her son and Councilmember Mink standing on a street in the Woodmoor neighborhood holding police flyers for finding the hit and run river, and a photo of part of the police flyer, from Councilmember Mink's Facebook post.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

Hanna Wegayehou, 61, was a 20-year public servant and the mother of the 2019-2020 Student Member of the Montgomery County Board of Education. There is a $20,000 reward for a tip leading to the identification of the person who hit & killed her on June 19, 2026, then drove away.

A smiling woman wearing a formal dress and holding a purse, standing outside in the courtyard of a building.

A young man wearing a tie and college graduation robes, flanked by his mother wearing a red dress and holding onto his left arm, and a man wearing a jacket, standing on the steps of a college building.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

Rollover Collision [at the Deadly Intersection of Columbia Pike/29 and Fairland Rd] Leaves Ten People Injured; Cyber Truck Split in Half mocoshow.com/2026/07/18/r...

Photo from the Montgomery County Police Department of the front (passenger) part of a Cybertruck, after a crash involving at least 6 vehicles at a huge intersection where there have been multiple fatal crashes in recent years.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

A: It is possible for people who live in cities to get their children to the doctor for check-ups without a car. Q: But what if I don't live in a city and I have to get my sick dog to the vet and the vet is 60 miles away and there's only one bus per day?

One can easily live without a car if one lives in the Civilized city. But if one lives 60 miles from the doctor with a bus that runs once a day only for the work schedule I need to know the answer because I have to do that. What happens when the dog gets sick?

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 24d

"The benefit of cars that comes from being able to get to the hospital quicker may only be relative to the poor suckers stuck in an ambulance while your personal cars are blocking up Manhattan."

Photo of an ambulance stuck behind cars in Manhattan. Caption: Ambulance stuck in Manhattan, by Philip Cohen.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

Google Maps keeps suggesting Midcounty Hwy as a bike route (for example, from the Gaithersburg library to Shady Grove Metro). No. Absolutely not. No. Never. No no no no no.

Two bike routes on Google Maps from the Gaithersburg library to the Shady Grove Metro station Derwood side. One route goes squiggly through Washington Grove, which no. The other route goes straight down Midcounty Highway, which infinitely no.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

The intersection of Miller Fall Rd & Midcounty Hwy is 1000 feet from the entrance to Shady Grove MS. Midcounty Hwy has no sidewalks. (Neither does Miller Fall Rd.) Midcounty Hwy is a designated school zone.

Satellite map showing the wonky boundaries of Shady Grove Middle School, which is on Midcounty Highway, which has no pedestrian level of comfort because there are no sidewalks, you can't walk there. The Shady Grove Middle School attendance zone is on both sides of Midcounty Highway. There are bus stops on both sides of Midcounty Highway at Miller Fall Road, east of the middle school, and at the intersection just west of the middle school.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

"You're going to have a difficult time convincing families with young children to give up car culture and take more public transit if you also refuse to" provide sidewalks and safe road crossings at bus stops. Just saying.

I think you're going to have a difficult time convincing families with young children to give up car culture and take more public transit if you also refuse to police behavior on the public transit and in the transit centers. Yes, people doing drugs in those places is a turn-off.

Bluesky post from 9:32 am on July 17, 2026.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

a ghost river of Baltimore?

A hole filled with water. The caption is: Car plunges into sinkhole in east Baltimore.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

"It's ok to park in the bus lane if I turn the hazards on" is a thought that some people with cars think.

Two cars blocking the bus lane in downtown Bethesda, with their flashers on.

A charter bus serving as a Metro shuttle, in the lane next to the blocked bus lane, in downtown Bethesda.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

Who would describe this intersection as safe for people crossing to or from the bus stop?

A median crossover at a four-way intersection. This is Midcounty Highway at Miller Fall Road. There are two bus stops kitty corner from each other. The sidewalk goes only from the corner to the bus stop. To cross from one bus to the other, you have to cross six lanes, in each of which drivers may be driving very fast, straight or turning. If you want to stop half way in the median, you can't cross at the intersection, where there are officially unmarked crosswalks. There is a green sign zip-tied to a lamp post at the corner that says A PEDESTRIAN WAS KILLED HERE. The intersection is in a school zone.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

On Tues 7/7/26 8:57 am the driver (34/M) of a 2010 BMW X5 with passenger (6/F) turning right from Miller Fall Rd to Midcounty Hwy hit & seriously injured a pedestrian (53/F) crossing properly in an unmarked crosswalk to/from a bus stop. Police (MCP2440002Z) found the driver at fault: ran stop sign.

A four-way intersection. The north south road has stop signs. The east west road is four to six lanes, divided, with a median crossover, built to be a high-speed highway. There is a bus stop on the northeast corner and another bus stop on the southwest corner. There are sidewalks to the bus stops from the corner, that's it, otherwise no sidewalks. There is no provision of any sort for a person to cross to or from the bus stop in any sort of comfort or safety.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

On Fri 7/10/26 12:50 pm the driver (55/F) of a 2015 Jeep Wrangler hit & seriously injured a pedestrian (82/F) in the parking lot way at Lancaster Dutch Market, Germantown Square shopping center. Police (MCP31710038) found the driver at fault: failure to yield ROW.

Google Streetview of lots of people crossing the parking lot drive aisle to and from Lancaster Dutch Market (which is Mennonites) at the corner of the shopping center.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

On Sat 7/11/26 9:34 pm the driver (17/F) of a 2018 Toyota Camry turning right from Wayne Ave to Sligo Creek Pkwy hit & seriously injured a person (48/M) on an e-bike in a marked crosswalk. Police (MCP3388002B) found the bicyclist at fault: wrong way riding.👀 📷Spring 2025

Satellite image of a four-way intersection with traffic signal. It's a construction zone for the Purple Line, in the satellite image. The intersection has only one marked crosswalk, on the north leg. The driver was probably turning right from going west to going north. The bicyclist was probably in the north leg marked crosswalk, going east.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

👀 www.nycurbanism.com/blog/2019/9/...

A wall made of limestone blocks, with impact holes. The caption is: Shrapnel imprint on north facade of JP Morgan Building, 23 Wall Street.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 25d

DA400000BX On Tues 7/14/26 11:25 pm a motorcyclist (22/M, 2024 Yamaha R7, killed) & 2 people (22/M, 22/M, both injured) in a 2003 Honda Accord going N in the left 2 lanes on New Hampshire Ave/650 hit 2 people (61/M, 66/F, both killed) in a 2015 Honda Civic turning left from NH Ave to Metzerott Rd.

Google satellite hybrid map of a T intersection with a traffic signal. The north south road is more or less six lanes, divided. There is a left turn lane for going from southbound to eastbound. The east west road is on the east side of the north south road. The north and east legs have marked crosswalks, but the south leg does not. The motorcyclist was going north uphill in the left lane, the Accord driver was going north uphill in the middle lane, the Civic driver was turning left from going south downhill to going east, from the left turn lane.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 26d

The discourse is discoursing.

Post from the Gothamist on July 14, 2026. The Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are set to lose about 10% of their street parking. With an image with no description, consisting of a street with lots of parked cars, that says Parts of Manhattan to sacrifice 10% of street parking as NYC installs new trash bins.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 26d

"Consider wearing a well-fitting face mask outside if you have a respiratory condition" and also if you don't, yet. There is no such thing as DIY-ing public health, though.

A Code Purple Air Quality alert has been issued for Friday, July 17, 2026 due to wildfires in Canada, which means air quality is unhealthy for everyone in Montgomery County. Everyone should reduce outdoor activities, especially children, older adults, and people with chronic medical conditions such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease, and diabetes.

Protect your health with these tips:

• Avoid strenuous outdoor activities.

• Consider moving outdoor and physical activities indoors or rescheduling them. Keep outdoor activities such as dog walking short and take frequent breaks.

• Use air conditioning and/or air purifiers at home and change filters often.

• Keep vehicle and home windows and doors shut.

• Make sure prescribed breathing aids, such as inhalers and oxygen, are accessible and working correctly.

• Seek medical attention for urgent symptoms such as difficulty breathing, chest tightness, or irregular heartbeat.

• Consider wearing a well-fitting face mask outside if you have a respiratory condition.

• Outdoor workers should consider alternative schedules and take frequent breaks.

Visit https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/government/departments-agencies/department-environmental-protection/property-care/air-quality-law/outdoor-air-quality to learn more information.

Air quality conditions are subject to change throughout the day due to shifting environmental factors. For the most up-to-date and accurate air quality information, please visit www.AirNow.gov
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Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 26d

Yes, and better train service for Roanoke would also be good.

Amtrak map and directions for the train station in Roanoke.

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit· 26d