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