Montgomery Community Media

Governor Hogan urges residents to remain patient and stay indoors while crews work to clear roads. Earlier today, Governor Hogan had this to say at the Maryland Emergency Operations Center: According to a press release, Hogan continues to direct all state agencies in a coordinated response to the winter blizzard that pummelled the state this […]

The nine members of the Montgomery County Council have sent a letter to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Peter Rahn, the secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation, asking that the state proceed with the original design of the long-planned interchange at I-270 and Watkins Mill Road in Gaithersburg. It was recently learned that the […]

Thanksgiving is a time for family, food, football, and unfortunately traffic. According to the Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA), the day before Thanksgiving is “notoriously referred to as the busiest travel day of the year.” According to news release, Regina Cooper-Averella of AAA Mid-Atlantic says, more than one million Marylanders are expected […]

The Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) is advising motorists who travel on I-270 southbound in Gaithersburg of multiple lane closures that will affect overnight travel. Beginning tonight, SHA will close three lanes of southbound I-270 starting at 10 p.m. The lane closures will extend from one mile south of Middleborok Road to […]

The Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) is hosting a community meeting at the Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department from 6 – 8 p.m. on Oct. 15 to discuss two possible alternatives to roadway and pedestrian safety improvements on Carroll Avenue (MD 195) in Takoma Park. Proposed alternatives include features such as widened […]

The Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) officials are studying plans to improve Route 97 (Georgia Avenue) near Montgomery Hills shopping area between Forest Glen Road and 16th Street. SHA officials want to hear from residents through a survey about possible improvements that can include wider sidewalks, pedestrian crosswalks, bicycle lanes, and replacing the reversible lane […]

A contractor for the Maryland State Highway Administration, Skelly and Loy, Inc., recently conducted an environmental survey to assess the bat population in an area near the designated route of the Brookeville Bypass. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports that wildlife biologists were looking for the northern long-eared bat, a threatened species. These biologists also conducted an […]

Road construction to improve River Road near Willard Avenue and Greenway Drive started on Aug. 24, according to officials from the Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration. SHA officials said crews are expected to widen eastbound River Road to add a left turn lane onto Willard Avenue, which will improve traffic flow and reduce […]

Daily lane closures are expected through late fall during a resurfacing project on MD 108- Ashton Road- in Montgomery County. The resurfacing project on two and half miles of MD 108, between MD 650 and the Howard County line, is scheduled to begin on Aug. 17. The Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration said the […]

Road construction is slated to begin Wednesday morning, Aug. 12, on MD 355 near Cedar Lane and West Cedar Lane, state officials said. Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) is scheduled to begin a repaving project to be complete by Aug. 21. Traffic will be shifted from the left side of northbound MD […]