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By Richard Parsons. The Montgomery County Council will soon have another opportunity to comment on long-standing regional transportation pla...

Remember our description of Montgomery County’s screwed-up system for measuring traffic congestion? Remember our proposal for accurately m...

Ten years ago, the Planning Board considered whether to raise the county’s Critical Lane Volume (CLV) standards by up to 100 points. This w...

After last week’s marathon five-part series on traffic measurement, I was prepared to move on to other things. But an anonymous friend of t...

In Part Two , we listed four corridors with high volumes and low speeds. Today, we list four corridors with modest volumes and low speeds. ...

In Part One , we discussed how GPS-based traffic measurement could work on a county-wide basis. The Planning Department has already done te...

In our previous two posts, we outlined the county’s reliance on Critical Lane Volume (CLV) to measure traffic and identify problem intersect...

In Part One, we described how Montgomery County’s Planning Department relies on Critical Lane Volume (CLV) to estimate congestion at interse...

Imagine if we measured the American economy by estimating Gross Domestic Product once every four years. Forget about measuring other things...

Dear readers, I am going to tell you something you already know: traffic congestion has reached catastrophic levels in Montgomery County. W...

Lots 31 and 31A, better known as the parking lots across the street from Barnes and Noble at Bethesda and Woodmont Aves., is becoming the Ar...

Montgomery County Planning Chairman Royce Hanson says not much can be done about traffic without a massive upping of the gas tax and limitin...