Monday, August 6, 2012
$40 million has been awarded to Montgomery County to fund the underpass and elevators to connect Walter Reed Bethesda with the Medical Center Metro station.
Montgomery County has been awarded a $40 million federal grant that will fund a pedestrian underpass and high-speed elevators to connect the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with the Medical Center Metrorail station. The funding was announced Monday by the Department of Defense. The pedestrian underpass, which will cross beneath the Rockville Pike, and the three elevators are a part of a host of transportation improvements planned near the military hospital to ease the traffic impacts of the federally-mandated Base Realignment and Closure program. BRAC drew 2,500 new employees to the military hospital last year as the Walter Reed Army Medical Center relocated to Bethesda, and yearly visitors there are expected to nearly double …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Lanes re-opening and gas is controlled, Montgomery County Fire ad Rescue reports.
Contractors apparently struck a gas line near the intersection of Rockville Pike and Cedar Lane Wedesday afternoon, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue reports. Fire and Rescue responded shortly before 1 p.m. to the report of a gas leak at the intersection, according to Capt. Oscar Garcia, a Fire and Rescue spokesman. Responders discovered a gas leak in the street, Garcia said. Washington Gas was called to the scene and the leak was controlled. Several lanes of traffic were shut down, and lanes were beginning to re-open shortly before 2:30 p.m., Garcia said. It's not clear who struck the gas line, but a major improvement project is underway at the intersection as a part of a plan to mitigate the impact of BRAC-related traffic. Under the …
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Water Line replacement will close Elmhirst Drive in Bethesda, followed by utility work that will prompt off-peak Rockville Pike lane closures.
Water line work is set to begin Thursday as officials prepare to launch a major intersection improvement project near Cedar Lane and the Rockville Pike, but utility work that will prompt off-peak Rockville Pike lane closures is still about a month away. The intersection improvement project is one of a host of transportation upgrades around the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center planned to ease the local impact of the federally-mandated Base Realignment and Closure process, which drew 2,500 new employees to the military hospital last year and is expected to nearly double the amount of annual visitors to one million. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission crews will close Elmhirst Drive in the Locust Hill neighborhood as they …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Pike will be affected by BRAC construction projects for much of the next three years, the Post reports.
Rockville Pike road improvement projects to help ease BRAC traffic are expected to launch next month with utility relocation work on the Pike, The Washington Post reports. BRAC projects will affect the Pike for much of the next three years, compounding traffic headaches on the already congested thoroughfare. State officials had expected the utility relocation work to launch last fall, Patch reported. Intersection improvements around the newly-minted Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, which saw 2,500 new employees as part of the federally-mandated Base Realignment and Closure process, will mean lane closures during off-peak hours, the Post reports. “It’ll be a mess,” county BRAC coordinator Phil Alperson told the Post. After a …
