College Park - News, Events, Updates, Questions and Developments Etc. (Baltimore: power lines, airport)

[DoughLow805]

Originally Posted by e2ksj3

I like their food, but just need to get their liquor license

Glad the area is getting more food options other than pizza and Chinese joints.

At this point, we've got a wide variety of fast casual food options up and down route 1...just would like to see more healthy options similar to sweetgreen (chopt, beefsteak, modern market, honeygrow, hipcityveg)

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by DoughLow805

At this point, we've got a wide variety of fast casual food options up and down route 1...just would like to see more healthy options similar to sweetgreen (chopt, beefsteak, modern market, honeygrow, hipcityveg)

I'm still shocked that there's no Panera Bread within 5 miles of campus. It's perfect for students and people who can't find a place to meet in Starbucks. The prices are reasonable.

They chose to locate next to two industrial parks. One is in Silver Spring off of 29 near warehouses and a few office parks and one is in Beltsville across from Costco and other warehouses. WTH?

I hope one comes to College Park or Riverdale Park Station. It makes too much sense. There's not even one in the Discovery District.

[lookingbutnotlost]

Originally Posted by adelphi_sky

I'm still shocked that there's no Panera Bread within 5 miles of campus. It's perfect for students and people who can't find a place to meet in Starbucks. The prices are reasonable.

They chose to locate next to two industrial parks. One is in Silver Spring off of 29 near warehouses and a few office parks and one is in Beltsville across from Costco and other warehouses. WTH?

I hope one comes to College Park or Riverdale Park Station. It makes too much sense. There's not even one in the Discovery District.

Corner Bakery is better imo but you're right I am surprised they don't have one down here. The ones they do have must do pretty well.

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by lookingbutnotlost

Corner Bakery is better imo but you're right I am surprised they don't have one down here. The ones they do have must do pretty well.

A Corner Bakery would be great as well.

[terp80]

College Park will install over 100 pedestrian lights on Route 1


College Park plans to partner with the State Highway Administration to install more than 100 pedestrian lights in the city by summer 2024.


To make Route 1 safer and more attractive, the groups are set to place 134 pedestrian lights between College Avenue and Route 193 in the next five years. The move is part of a larger SHA improvement project on that stretch of Route 1, which also includes adding bike lanes, raising the median and widening certain sidewalks to make them ADA-compliant.


College Park will install over 100 pedestrian lights on Route 1 - Arc Publishing

[lookingbutnotlost]

Originally Posted by terp80

College Park will install over 100 pedestrian lights on Route 1


College Park plans to partner with the State Highway Administration to install more than 100 pedestrian lights in the city by summer 2024.


To make Route 1 safer and more attractive, the groups are set to place 134 pedestrian lights between College Avenue and Route 193 in the next five years. The move is part of a larger SHA improvement project on that stretch of Route 1, which also includes adding bike lanes, raising the median and widening certain sidewalks to make them ADA-compliant.


College Park will install over 100 pedestrian lights on Route 1 - Arc Publishing

ahh I have wanted this for years! Small things like this really make a difference in the town's aesthetics. And of course the safety aspects.

[terplandlord]

They need to bury the telephone lines on rt 1. It looks terrible. All the new impovements are behind a jumble of wires and crooked telephone poles as far as the eye can see. It lookes disorganized and sloppy. The lines are buried in front of the university and it looks great. But from Paint Branch north to the beltway it looks ridiculous. Why are the lines buried almost everyplace nice in DC but not college park? There are zero telephone poles on any major road in DC. Rt 1 is the flagship university main street... nobody is smart enough to do the basic square 1 infrastructure before renovating.

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by terplandlord

They need to bury the telephone lines on rt 1. It looks terrible. All the new impovements are behind a jumble of wires and crooked telephone poles as far as the eye can see. It lookes disorganized and sloppy. The lines are buried in front of the university and it looks great. But from Paint Branch north to the beltway it looks ridiculous. Why are the lines buried almost everyplace nice in DC but not college park? There are zero telephone poles on any major road in DC. Rt 1 is the flagship university main street... nobody is smart enough to do the basic square 1 infrastructure before renovating.

It simply costs too much to fix something that isn't broken. If it was a safety issue or if trees were knocking out power to downtown every year, then there may be a harder push.

https://ggwash.org/view/28250/what-w...ry-power-lines

[lookingbutnotlost]

Originally Posted by terplandlord

They need to bury the telephone lines on rt 1. It looks terrible. All the new impovements are behind a jumble of wires and crooked telephone poles as far as the eye can see. It lookes disorganized and sloppy. The lines are buried in front of the university and it looks great. But from Paint Branch north to the beltway it looks ridiculous. Why are the lines buried almost everyplace nice in DC but not college park? There are zero telephone poles on any major road in DC. Rt 1 is the flagship university main street... nobody is smart enough to do the basic square 1 infrastructure before renovating.

That would be great but it's financially unfeasible. Those companies aren't paying to take down functional lines.

[mmoz80]

I might be reading this wrong, but don't they have plans to remove utility poles and underground wires by 2024?

Widening Route 1 in College Park could mean six years of traffic disruptions - Arc Publishing