Montgomery Community Media

UPDATED  The Silver Spring Transit Center is scheduled to open next month. According to a Montgomery County official, the county’s work at the three-level facility will be complete this week. General Services Director David Dise sent a completion notice to WMATA officials on Thursday in order to formalize the transfer of the Silver Spring Transit […]

Almost half of all the drivers who took the Maryland drivers’ license roads test in Montgomery County over the past year failed it, according to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration. Krista Brick has the story about a change to the test that might reduce that fail rate.   Related:

The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration officially removed parallel parking as a required test element on the driver’s license test on a statewide basis starting May 19. Here’s what Tom Pecoraro, president of I Drive Smart, has to say about that decision.   Related:

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) Division of Parking will begin charging for parking in the 960-space Capital Crescent Garage beginning at 7 a.m. on Monday, March 2. The garage is at the intersection of Woodmont and Bethesda avenues. Parking has been free since the garage opened on January 20 to give parkers time […]

Rockville City Manager Barbara Burns Matthews has declared a snow emergency as the city prepares for a major storm that is expected to bring significant snowfall to the Washington metropolitan region tonight. Residents should remove all vehicles from roads, including neighborhood streets, by 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 16. All vehicles should be parked in garages […]

Woodmont Avenue, between Bethesda Avenue and Leland Street, and a new county parking garage in Bethesda, called the Capital Crescent Garage opened on Jan. 20. The garage, located at the intersection of Woodmont and Bethesda avenues on two former surface parking lots, is part of a public-private, mixed use development that added 250 residential units, […]

If your holiday plans has you leaving your car in a Bethesda parking facility take note of these tips: • Montgomery County allows overnight parking, but is not liable for theft or vandalism that may occur. • The hours of required payment for the garages in Bethesda are 7 a.m. – 10 p.m., Monday through […]

If you are going out in  Takoma Park you had better bring some change for parking. The city-owned parking lot between the TPSS Co-op at 201 Ethan Allen Ave. and the Takoma Auto Clinic at 7221 Carroll Ave., is now paid parking. According to Sara Daines, director of housing and community development, commuters were using […]

The Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services has posted the following note about a shortage of parking on its website: “Please be aware that the owner of 255 Rockville Pike has unexpectedly closed large sections of public parking in our building to perform structure repairs. Unfortunately, we did not have advance notice of the change. […]

The latest winter storm update from Montgomery County: Snowplow Status Snow crews remain focused on keeping emergency routes, main roads and secondary roads passable for emergency vehicles, ensuring that every household is within one-half mile of a cleared road. Once the snowfall ends later today, crews will complete plowing main roads and then focus on […]