Friday, April 5, 2013
On Monday, at 9:30 a.m., the Montgomery County Council's Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee will be briefed on what has been learned so far about the water main break at Chevy Chase Lake Drive and Connecticut Avenue.
As cleanup continues around the crater formed by March 18's massive water main break at Connecticut Avenue and Chevy Chase Lake Drive, many questions have arisen about how the water main break—from which 60 million gallons of water were lost, necessitating mandatory water restrictions in two counties—could have happened. This Monday, April 8, at 9:30 a.m., the Montgomery County Council's Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee will be briefed on what has been learned so far about the break, according to an email statement from Neil Greenberger, spokesperson for the Montgomery County Council. The Washington Post reported that a Chevy Chase resident noticed "water squirting up from an opening in a circular metal …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Water restrictions are in place in Montgomery and Prince George's counties until repairs to the Chevy Chase Lake water main are complete, which could take several days.
Update, 1 p.m., Thursday, March 21: Repairs to the 60-inch water main that burst Monday night in Chevy Chase continued on Thursday. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission crews removed the damaged 20-foot section of the pipe and are working to weld a new section in place, according to a WSSC statement issued at noon Thursday. "Once repairs to the pipe are complete later this afternoon it will take several more days for the work to conclude," the statement read. Only the right-hand northbound lane of Connecticut Avenue between Dunlop Street and Manor Road in Chevy Chase Lake remained closed Thursday. Mandatory water restrictions continued Thursday for Montgomery and Prince George's counties. "There is evidence that [water] consumption is …
Monday, March 18, 2013
Two northbound lanes on Connecticut Avenue are open after a ruptured 60-inch main sent water gushing three stories high Monday.
Update, 1 p.m., Thursday, March 21: Repairs to the 60-inch water main that burst Monday night in Chevy Chase continued on Thursday. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission crews removed the damaged 20-foot section of the pipe and are working to weld a new section in place, according to a WSSC statement issued at noon Thursday. "Once repairs to the pipe are complete later this afternoon it will take several more days for the work to conclude," the statement read. Only the right-hand northbound lane of Connecticut Avenue between Dunlop Street and Manor Road in Chevy Chase Lake remained closed Thursday. Mandatory water restrictions continued Thursday for Montgomery and Prince George's counties. "There is evidence that [water] consumption is …
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
A 53-year-old woman was struck near the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Randolph Road. The driver fled the scene.
Update, Feb. 28, 10:50 a.m. Montgomery County police are looking for a Toyota Corolla in connection with a hit-and-run that occurred in Aspen Hill Tuesday night. Police said via Twitter that the car in question is of unknown color and a model from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The car may have damage to its front right corner, possibly to the headlight area. Family and friends of Marylyn Eres Ali, the woman who was fatally struck as she was crossing Connecticut Avenue sometime between 7 and 8 p.m., held a candlelight vigil Wednesday night along Connecticut Avenue near Everton Street, WTOP reported. Ali routinely took the L8 Metrobus from Washington, DC, to the bus stop at Connecticut Avenue and Everton Street, usually arriving home …
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
This is the second set of funds released for specific transportation improvements to help ease traffic problems on roads leading to the Bethesda medical campuses.
Improvements to the five-way intersection at Connecticut Avenue, Jones Bridge Road and Kensington Parkway in Chevy Chase are one step closer to reality with the recent release of $18.3 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Defense to the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration. The funds will help get this congested intersection—just south of the Capital Beltway—in better shape to serve nearby medical campuses (the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the National Naval Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health). Ever since Walter Reed moved to Bethesda in August 2011, traffic has been heavy in the area. "Our community is proud to be the home of the new Walter Reed National Military …
Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Maryland State Highway Administration says that a pedestrian-activated crossing signal across Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase Village is "not recommended at this time."
Crossing Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase Village by foot isn't likely to get easier any time soon. Although the Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers, the Chevy Chase Village Traffic Committee, residents and elected officials wrote to the Maryland State Highway Administration in support of installing a pedestrian-activated traffic signal (along with a marked crosswalk) at an intersection across Connecticut Avenue near Chevy Chase Village Hall, the SHA is not recommending a signal at this time, according to a letter (dated July 10) sent by the SHA to Chevy Chase Village Board of Managers Chair Patricia Baptiste. Instead, the SHA will install a new flashing pedestrian warning beacon on Connecticut Avenue. SHA conducted a study noting the …
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The collision briefly shut down southbound traffic on Connecticut Avenue.
Southbound traffic on Connecticut Avenue at Jones Bridge Road drew to a halt late Tuesday morning after a car collision involving more than one vehicle injured at least one person, according to the Montgomery County Police Department. The collision occurred shortly before 11:30 a.m. By about 11:50 a.m., two southbound lanes had opened back up, police said.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Just because it's not rush hour doesn't mean that there are no back-ups on Connecticut Avenue.
Traffic on Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase isn't always caused by bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic or fatal car crashes. With buses fitting just a little too snugly in Connecticut Avenue's somewhat narrow lanes in Chevy Chase, and with tree trimming in process, getting stuck behind both a bus and a tree-trimming truck can be frustrating, to say the least. Has this ever happened to you?
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
A car crash on Connecticut Avenue shortly after noon on Tuesday killed a woman and sent a man to the hospital.
A car crash on Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase Village killed a woman and sent a man to the hospital on Tuesday, the Montgomery County Police Department reported on Twitter. The woman was a passenger in the car, and the man was driving the car at the time of the crash. A witness said that the car crashed into a tree, WAMU reported. The crash happened shortly before noon in the southbound lanes of Connecticut Avenue (Maryland state Route 185) near Irving Street (not far from Chevy Chase Village Hall), county police reported on Twitter. Immediately after the accident, all lanes on Connecticut Avenue were closed to traffic between Bradley Lane and Chevy Chase Circle. By 12:13 p.m., northbound lanes were open, while southbound lanes …
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Chevy Chase Village has ceased charging any fees with its Connecticut Avenue speeding tickets, while the question of whether or not uniform fees should be charged across the state is considered.
A speeding ticket's price tag has two parts: The fine and the fees. The fine of $40 is uniform throughout the state, but the fees (administrative fees, flagging fees, late fees, etc.) have not been uniform, Chevy Chase Village Manager Shana R. Davis-Cook explained to Patch. And, for now, the fees are not being imposed in Chevy Chase Village, where the speed cameras on Connecticut Avenue are notorious for slowing down traffic to exactly 30 mph (the posted speed limit) or less, making clueless speeders easy targets for the cameras. "Currently each jurisdiction sets its own administrative, flagging and/or late fees and the fees vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction," Davis-Cook explained in an email to Patch. "Chief Judge for the District …
Charles Roberts
1:08 am on Sunday, April 7, 2013
I've been a construction safety and health professional for 45 years and my experiences with buried ruptured pipe-water-gas-oil-propane --comes from damage during installation and mishandling by heavy equipment. more ›