{"id":315188371,"date":"2014-12-28T00:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T00:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=315188371"},"modified":"2014-12-28T00:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T00:19:31","slug":"moco-state-come-to-agreement-on-controversial-stretch-of-old-georgetown-road-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=315188371","title":{"rendered":"MoCo, State Come To Agreement On Controversial Stretch Of Old Georgetown Road NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Aaron Kraut, Bethesda Now<br \/>\nMontgomery County says it\u2019s come to an agreement with the State Highway Administration on a stretch of White Flint area road that caused controversy earlier this year.<br \/>\nCounty Executive Isiah Leggett announced today that the state will allow the county to reduce the number of lanes on Old Georgetown Road in the recently rebranded Pike District to make it easier to cross for pedestrians.<br \/>\nThe county\u2019s Department of Transportation (MCDOT) will also be able to build the on-road bike lanes recommended by the 2010 White Flint Sector Plan.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCounty officials said they\u2019re hands were tied because SHA controls decisions on lane configurations and construction permits for the state road.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethesdanow.com\/2014\/12\/24\/moco-says-state-will-let-it-build-more-narrow-old-georgetown-road\/\">https:\/\/www.bethesdanow.com\/2014\/12\/24\/moco-says-state-will-let-it-build-more-narrow-old-georgetown-road\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Aaron Kraut, Bethesda Now Montgomery County says it\u2019s come to an agreement with the State Highway Administration on a stretch of White Flint area road that caused controversy earlier this year. County Executive Isiah Leggett announced today that the state will allow the county to reduce the number of lanes on Old Georgetown Road &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=315188371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MoCo, State Come To Agreement On Controversial Stretch Of Old Georgetown Road NEWS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315188371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315188371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315188371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315188371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315188371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315188371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315188371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}