Please accept these comments on behalf of the Coalition for Smarter Growth. We are a regional organization based in the District of Columbia focused on ensuring transportation and development decisions are made with genuine community involvement and accommodate growth while revitalizing communities, providing more housing and travel choices, and conserving

The Coalition for Smarter Growth has released the following regarding Rapid Transit in Montgomery County: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 21st, 2013 Contacts:  Stewart Schwartz, Coalition for Smarter Growth, (703) 599-6437 Montgomery Planners Propose 78-Mile Rapid Transit system  Today, Montgomery County planning staff present to the Planning Board a 78-mile version of the proposed

My smart growth buddies have issued a critique of the compromise transportation-funding deal. Among the highlights in the press release issued jointly today by the Coalition for Smarter Growth and the Piedmont Environmental Council: Cutting gas taxes by up to one-third reduces the tie between transportation use and funding. “Transportation,

Route 355 is the only road in Montgomery County that could support a two-way bus lane, county planners said Thursday as they presented a scaled-back bus rapid system to the county's Planning Board. Planners are pitching a 78-mile system that would include eight corridors in the center and downcounty regions.

Montgomery County planners think Rockville Pike is the county’s best candidate for a “true” Bus Rapid Transit route, meaning the traffic-clogged artery could support a two-lane median busway similar to major systems that serve millions of riders in other countries. The finding came today in a briefing from planners in