COUNTYWIDE TRANSIT CORRIDORS FUNCTIONAL MASTER PLAN

Update on Countywide Transit Corridors Functional Master Plan July 30, 2013

Where We Are In Process May 16th – Public Hearing Held 607 pages of written testimony from 274

individual e-mails and letters 111-page issues matrix with staff

responses June 6, 13, and 18 – Work Sessions #1,

#2, and #3 July 11th – Approved to Transmit Planning

Board Draft to Council

Major Changes to Public Hearing Draft Plan

Phase II deleted but treatments will be shown per:

Change to dashed red (two-lanemedian busway) with note that this requires confirmation by jurisdiction (Rockville)

Change to blue (curb bus lanes, per former Phase 1) with note in Plan Appendix that an enhancement to two-lane median busway could be considered as part of a future master plan update.

Another Area of Discussion - Transit Performance Standard: New Implementation Section “Minimum performance standards must be

created to guide the implementation of the proposed BRT network to ensure that it will be an attractive alternative to driving. BRT has the ability to greatly expand the people-moving capacity of a travel lane, either all-day or during peak periods, and can be a highly effective way to decrease dependence on single-occupant vehicles and the resultant congestion on our roads.

Another Area of Discussion - Transit Performance Standard: New Implementation Section “More detailed facility planning may result in

modifications to the recommended treatment in specific corridors or segments, but a guiding document is needed to ensure that the key objective of subsequent facility planning and detailed engineering should be that the resulting end-state transit corridor treatments (i.e., treatments generally attainable within the recommended rights-of-way) for individual corridors and the overall network should be consistent with the minimum level of service that would be provided by the recommended transit corridor treatments in this Plan.

Recommended Transit Corridor Network

Corridor

Bi-directional One-Lane Median

Curb Lanes

Managed Lanes

Mixed Traffic

Reversible One-Lane

Median

Two-Lane

Median

Two-Lane Side

Running TotalGeorgia Avenue North       0.9 8.6    9.5Georgia Avenue South   1.7  2.0      3.7MD 355 North       1.6  12.5  14.1MD 355 South   1.2      8.2  9.3New Hampshire Avenue       2.8 3.8 1.8  8.5North Bethesda Transitway       0.3 1.5  0.9 2.7Randolph Road       10.1      10.1University Blvd       2.8 2.7    5.5US 29   1.1 0.9 3.4  5.6  11.0Veirs Mill Road 6.2            6.2Total 6.2 4.0 0.9 23.9 16.6 28.1 0.9 80.7Note: Includes recommendations in areas outside Montgomery County's planning authority, including Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Prince George's County