Some Actual Success on Traffic C

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Some Actual Success on Traffic Calming
Recent efforts by our President Paula Bienenfeld and Traffic Chair Bill King resulted in a productive meeting with the County on traffic calming measures.   Hosted by Councilman Berliner, we met with the head of DPWT, representatives of Ike Leggett’s office, and Planning with some success. Some measures are immediate and some will begin a longer term process.   A more detailed discussion is available in Bill King’s Traffic Committee report on our website www.luxmanor.org. For now:

New stop signs will be placed at Tilden and Cushman and at Tilden and Luxmanor. These will reduce speeds on Tilden and improve crossing opportunities near school bus stops.
Edgelines will be painted along Danville to encourage a safer distance between pedestrians and traffic.
A traffic survey will be undertaken to determine the level of cut-through traffic. (License plate data will be taken at peak times to determine origin of the cars.) The survey will focus on Marcliff, Wayside, Tilden and Luxmanor.

There are various other requests still on the table. The survey mentioned above may determine that a traffic light is needed at Tuckerman and Marcliff. This would facilitate access by residents to Tuckerman Lane with its worsening traffic density.   We have also requested signage which would help divert Montgomery Mall-bound traffic away from Tuckerman and onto Rockledge Drive. In the same area, we are requesting a review of the location of bus stops. Cars that currently use the shoulder to go around left-turners are endangering pedestrians waiting for buses.

In addition, we are investigating the possibility of a small Ride-On service circulating from White Flint Metro to the edge of Montgomery Mall. We would also like to see parking on Tilden between Old Georgetown and Luxmanor be limited to 3 hours to reduce the commuter parking on Tilden.

But….
Though the new and anticipated steps represent some incremental improvements to safety on our roads, more serious measures will likely be required to deflect the traffic volumes that we can expect.   With some 15,000 new residences and 12 million square feet of office space from White Flint alone - and several other high density developments anticipated within one mile of our borders - traffic can only worsen. The County, as yet, has no comprehensive plan for protecting our neighborhood from this impact.