Posted on 05/05/2008 6:53:31 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
In the community of Shady Grove Woods, trees are becoming more and more scarce.
Residents and other anti-Intercounty Connector activists marched through the neighborhood on Saturday, pointing out the trees that were cut down to make way for the six-lane highway.
Its just that we didnt have a say in it in so many ways and were not talking about a two-lane road, were talking about a major highway running through here, resident Sam Chim said of the ICC. We have a lot of nice, private woods back here and now were going to have a highway running through instead. It just kills the whole atmosphere of living in Shady Grove Woods; its going to be like Shady Grove Highway after this.
Chim is one of several residents who has lost a portion of his back yard to the highway, and one of nearly 100 people who attended the weekend Irish wake in the Derwood neighborhood.
The event, called Wake-up MoCo, was organized by Connie McKenna and a group of neighbors in an effort to draw attention to what they say is the devastating impact of the Intercounty Connector on their community, located west of Shady Grove Road along Briardale Road.
A walking tour playfully called OMalleys March, the name of Gov. Martin OMalleys former Irish rock band, mimicked the processional of an Irish wake as bagpiper Steve Porter led the group to the barren field behind several homes.
Today were here to mourn for what was really a forest six weeks ago, said McKenna, president of the Shady Grove Woods Homeowners Association.
The ICC, an 18-mile toll road that will connect Interstate 270 in Gaithersburg to Interstate 95 in Laurel, is in the early stages of construction and is expected to cost about $2.4 billion...
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Uh, I definitely like fresh air at night.
And they continue to whine.
Montgomery County was a nice county when I was a kid, with lots of farmland and rolling hills. I spent many a day wandering around Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Megnetism field station in Derwood, MD, where there were a few radio astronomy dishes which my dad helped to build. As kids, my brother and sisters and I traipsed all over that property, climbing on the base of the under-construction dishes like they were monkey bars, and collecting snake skins and all kinds of "wild" stuff in the tall grass all around us.
Now if you drive out to Derwood, where Carnegie used to own the land, you'll find ticky-tacky, brick-front but vinyl-sided houses crowded together. Carnegie got crowded out by suburban sprawl. And the only reminder of those days is the street sign on that short street leading into that subdivision - Carnegie Avenue.
Now, I would be very happy to see all the liberal transplants leave Montgomery County and go back to where they came from and get back the rural charm of my old stomping grounds; but that won't happen. Time, and progress, marches on. They need to march with it, or get trampled by it. But they need to quit whining, that's for certain.
I confess - I saw "Montgomery" and I immediately thought of England. My brain switched to metric! ;-)
Actually, a reasonable solution in areas like this is a road that’s basically designed as a one-way road at different times of day.
I’ve often thought that US 29 in MD could be a southbound-only road during morning rush and northbound-only during evening rush.
At least they still drink in pints in England...they do don’t they? :’)
I don't know--are we sure that the road is all people from Gaithersburg and Germantown looking to go to Laurel in the morning? Or is it people from Laurel trying to get to jobs in Gaithersburg? Might be both. I don't have any data on this so I'm just asking.
Governor Owe'Money, they mean.
Since the sassy Democrat voters of Montgomery are almost solely to blame for the entrenched Marxism in this state, it is only just that Monkey Canny should start reaping the whirlwind.
Yes.
Don't let PG County and Baltimore City off the hook, either...
You could call the new route I-995 (yes, I know that technically, I-995 would not be a spur, but I-540 in NC is not a spur, either, as far as I know). Or you could call it I-1095, America's first 4-di Interstate. Or you could call it I-301 (an orphan similar to I-238 out in California). Or I-101 (the East Coast analog to U.S. 101). Possibilities abound.
I’d steal I-97 and use that. The route would traverse 4 states. Another possibility would be to call the new route I-95E and the current route I-95W.
I would be pissed off, too. This country is becoming more and more paved over.
Damned people, multiplying and building stuff and cutting down trees! We oughta just kill ‘em all!
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