Montgomery Community Media

The Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) is starting construction on improvements to the Cedar Lane and Maryland Route 355 (Rockville Pike) intersection that will require the detour of Ride On Bus Route 34 beginning June 6 through August 22. To avoid the construction, the bus route will bypass Cedar Lane between Parkhill and Beach drives, […]

Find out how you can travel for free on Ride On buses and help the hungry in our community. Passengers will receive free bus rides by donating canned or nonperishable food during Ride On’s annual food drive from April 6 through April 12. Those who do not ride the bus but wish to donate food […]

Montgomery County’s Ride On bus service will operate a regular weekday schedule on Monday, March 17. However, as roads are expected to be icy and snow covered, passengers should expect delays and detours. Check http://rideonrealtime.com or call 311 for more information. MC311 will open this evening at 10 p.m.

One year after the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) created the K9 limited-stop bus service from the Fort Totten Metro Station to Northwest Park, it is extending the service to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)/Federal Research Center beginning December 29. The service will further help relieve crowding along the busy New Hampshire Avenue […]

Montgomery County’s Ride On bus service will be adding new service in 2014. Following review of comments from a public forum held in September to consider the new service, Ride On will be offering a new Route 94 “Meet the MARC” bus service during rush hours between Clarksburg and the Germantown MARC Train Station beginning […]

Beginning January 13, Montgomery County Ride On will offer a new Route 94 bus service between Clarksburg and the Germantown MARC train station. The service is called “Meet the MARC” because if the evening MARC train runs late, the Ride On bus will wait for the train to arrive. In partnership with the Maryland Transit […]

The new Montgomery County transit operations center is dedicated to a former Ride On planner, David F. Bone. In this MyMCMedia extra, DOT’s Al Rosdieh discusses the significance of the name and the facility at a recent press conference on site of the new facility. Roshdieh also notes some of the other important features,  including […]

Beginning Oct. 20, Montgomery County’s Ride On bus system will make modifications to its bus schedule on certain routes. Many of the changes involve only minor time adjustments so that bus schedules more closely match actual travel times in traffic. Changes to the routes are shown below and are posted on Ride On’s website. Route […]

Residents are reminded that Montgomery County government and Montgomery County Public Schools do not observe Columbus Day on Oct. 14 as an official holiday. Most Montgomery County services will operate and facilities will be open on that day. Ride On and most other county services will operate on the normal weekly schedule. Because the State […]

Thanks to all the Ride On bus riders this week, we’ve started picking up bins from Ride On’s Give and Ride food drive, and boy are they heavy! Imagine three large bins full of cans – or take a look! That’s 3,087 pounds of cans collected by Ride On drivers just this week. We’ll pick […]