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"The problem isn’t that you guys aren’t doing a good job at specific places, but you are focusing too much on automobiles rather than bicycle and pedestrian connectivity," Casey Anderson, a member of the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board, said Jan. 27 when about 50 residents met with SHA and county Department of Transportation officials.
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"Some of these are clearly preventable," said Darian Unger, chairman of the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board. "… And one of the things we keep coming back to is engineering and how things are designed around here."
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Montgomery County has indeed focused too much on automobiles in the past, some county officials conceded. But these new projects, and the opportunity to improve communication and collaboration between the county DOT and SHA, should turn that around, they said.
"Montgomery County has been very car-centric in the past," said Emil Wolanin, the county’s chief traffic engineer. "But that’s changing. Whether you think that’s changing fast enough is a debate."
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"We have to bring the ‘walkability’ back to the community," said Silver Spring resident Kathleen Samiy.
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