******Gaithersburg Development Thread****** (Silver Spring, Montgomery Village, Mayo: condominium, crime rate, home)

[MDAllstar]

Originally Posted by MDAllstar

Here is the plan that was just released for the BRT system for Montgomery County with a projected 213,100-266,400 daily riders. The Montgomery Village route has been eliminated. It has been replaced with a Muncaster Mill rd. to Shady Grove route with a terminus at the metro station.

Here are the plans:

-150 stations
-16 lines
-peak headway's will be as frequent as every 2-3 minutes on the busiest corridors


-148.3 system total miles
-two-way guideway only 24 miles
-one-way guideway only 48 miles (rush hour direction)
-guideway and bus lane 27 miles
-bus lane (both direction) 1 mile
-bus lane (one direction) 7 miles
-no guideway or bus lanes 44 miles
-26 Queue Jump Intersections
-TSP 176 intersections
-367 platform stations at 150 sites (median and curb)
-209 Concrete pads
-430 total bus fleet

http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/co...mary110426.pdf

My mistake, the new line is actually Midcounty Highway to Shady Grove Rd. with a terminus at Shady Grove Metro Station and Shady Grove CCT Light Rail station.

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by MDAllstar

Here is the plan that was just released for the BRT system for Montgomery County with a projected 213,100-266,400 daily riders. The Montgomery Village route has been eliminated. It has been replaced with a Muncaster Mill rd. to Shady Grove route with a terminus at the metro station.

Here are the plans:

-150 stations
-16 lines
-peak headway's will be as frequent as every 2-3 minutes on the busiest corridors


-148.3 system total miles
-two-way guideway only 24 miles
-one-way guideway only 48 miles (rush hour direction)
-guideway and bus lane 27 miles
-bus lane (both direction) 1 mile
-bus lane (one direction) 7 miles
-no guideway or bus lanes 44 miles
-26 Queue Jump Intersections
-TSP 176 intersections
-367 platform stations at 150 sites (median and curb)
-209 Concrete pads
-430 total bus fleet

http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/co...mary110426.pdf

Smoke and Mirrors....

[qjbusmaster]

Originally Posted by $mk8795

Smoke and Mirrors....

not really it would get rid of local but not regional pass through traffic I will be damed it reaches clarksburg

[MDAllstar]

New three story Mixed Use Office Building with retail on the first level goes up for preliminary plan approval tonight. The building will be built in Olde Town Gaithersburg as the revitalization continues.

http://www.gaithersburgmd.gov/Docume...SP_11_0008.pdf

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by qjbusmaster

not really it would get rid of local but not regional pass through traffic I will be damed it reaches clarksburg

A bunch of BS because Bethesda-Rockville has lots of local traffic......

[qjbusmaster]

Originally Posted by $mk8795

A bunch of BS because Bethesda-Rockville has lots of local traffic......

I said BRT gets rid of that is the only traaffic it will phase down as it makes local travel faster seriously stop posting BS jerk!!!! I dont argue with fools like urself argue with The MD guy not me I am not interested in ur weak logic

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by MDAllstar

My mistake, the new line is actually Midcounty Highway to Shady Grove Rd. with a terminus at Shady Grove Metro Station and Shady Grove CCT Light Rail station.

So basically the Mid-County Highway will be extended between Shady Grove Metro to Germantown via MD 355.....

[$mk8795]

Originally Posted by qjbusmaster

I said BRT gets rid of that is the only traaffic it will phase down as it makes local travel faster seriously stop posting BS jerk!!!! I dont argue with fools like urself argue with The MD guy not me I am not interested in ur weak logic

You are the one BS-ing with non-proven opinions about trolley's removing cars off of Major Roads.........

There are major Bus Routes and a High Speed Subway that runs along MD 355 but that does not reduce the Mass Traffic along MD 355.......

Until your opinion becomes Fact all your doing is unrealistic advertising that me and others are not buying......

Sorry but thats reality.......

[westsideboy]

Busman and MDallstar know their stuff, I find their opinions to be credible, if not proveable yet. Of course with the projected population growth, it is possible that car traffic will continue to be a nightmare, but still improved by mass transportation over what it would be otherwise. The two variables aren't mutually exclusive.

[MDAllstar]

For Gaithersburg High community, a groundbreaking long in the making


Politicians, students and residents turned out by the dozens Thursday to watch the ceremonial turning of the dirt at Gaithersburg High School.

The Frederick Avenue campus will undergo a modernization over the next three years, leading to the demolition of the original 60-year-old building and the construction of a brand new, 429,619-square-foot school.

"It's taken too long, but sometimes it's worth waiting for," said Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney A. Katz, a 1968 graduate of the school.

Gaithersburg High School was founded in 1904 at the site of what is now Gaithersburg Elementary School. High school students were moved to the Frederick Avenue campus in 1951. The high school was originally built at 68,184 square feet and for 800 students. Seven additions from 1956 to 2005 added 255,292 square feet.

The piecemeal renovations increased capacity, but led to problems across campus, not the least of which is the "stairway to nowhere" in the school's E Hall, which connects only the top and bottom floors of the three-story building with no access to the second floor.

That shortcoming and others — heating issues, mold and narrow hallways — were highlighted in a video created by 2008 GHS senior Bobby Oler that was presented at a Montgomery County Board of Education meeting in May 2008.

At the groundbreaking Thursday, several speakers poked fun at the condition of the school — and commended the perseverance of parents and students who advocated for the modernization.

"They drug every politician through the building that they possibly could — and lost half of them along the way," said Superintendent of Schools Jerry D. Weast. "The first time I came to this building 12 years ago, I had to drop crumbs to find my way out."

The $107.5 million modernization project is funded in the school system's 2011-16 capital improvement program.

The first phase of the replacement, now under way, includes drilling geothermal wells under what will become a temporary parking lot. The new school will be built on the site of the existing parking lot. After construction, the old school will be torn down.

The new building will hold up to 2,294 students — about 300 more than now.

Two sections of the old school will remain: the auditorium, built in 1973, and the "J" wing, built in 2005. A third story will be added to the "J" wing.

The new building will be ready for use by August 2013. Work at the site will be finished by August 2014.

"I think the important thing to remember is what new schools mean to communities. This is going to be a center of wonderful activity," said school board President Christopher S. Barclay.

"What's going to be important here are ... the teaching and learning that goes on, and the sparks that will be lit in this wonderful building."

dgaines@gazette.net

Gaithersburg High School,

by the numbers

60 — Age of Gaithersburg High School building

800 — Students the 1951 building was built to hold

2,057 — GHS students in 2011

68,184 — Square footage of Gaithersburg High School in 1951

7 — Number of renovations done at the school from 1956 to 2005

323,476 — Square footage after renovations

429,619 — Anticipated square footage of new school

$170.5 million — Anticipated cost to build school in 2011

15 — Shovels used by dignitaries in the ceremonial turning of the soil to celebrate the new building project