Montgomery Community Media

Local residents heard updates on changes to the County’s Rapid Transit plan during the Silver Spring Citizen Advisory Board’s April meeting. MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk has the latest story on where Rapid Transit is going and what the next steps are for the project. Bus Rapid Transit is now Rapid Transit Vehicle. That’s just one of […]

This summer, the Montgomery County Planning Board passed a draft plan for a 79-mile system, entitled the Countywide Transit Corridors Functional Master Plan, and this fall that same plan will go to the County Council for consideration. Now is the time to learn more about this plan, and get involved.  Here’s a new video to […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment (T and E) Committee will meet on April 26 at 9:45 a.m. on a number of transportation-related items that are addressed in the Fiscal Year 2014 operating budget and the FY13-18 Capital Improvements Program recommended by County Executive Isiah Leggett. The worksessions, which are part of […]

Montgomery Week In Review host Don Mooers talks with Dale Tibbotts, aide to Councilman Elrich, about the Rapid Transit Plan recently submitted to County Executive. The plan includes dedicated rights of way for buses and “real” stations.

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner updates reporters at his weekly press conference about the Governor’s decision to select bus rapid transit (BRT) over light rail as the mode of the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT). Berliner consistently refers to the mode as the “rapid transit line” and when asked by a reporter about if the […]