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Transportation

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A cartoon depicting the question: Is the maglev ridership forecast accurate?
21 May 2021

The Federal Railroad Administration falls for an excessively high forecast of how many trips would be made on the maglev

by Owen A Kelley | posted in: Greenbelt News, Transportation |

Reference data suggest that the official ridership forecast is more than a factor of ten too high for the proposed Baltimore-Washington maglev A cartoon depicting the question: Is the maglev’s official ridership forecast accurate? With the maglev public-comment period drawing … Read More

10 Aug 2017

Greenbelt (Almost) Gets a Great New Bike Trail

by Analytic Design | posted in: Transportation |

by Jeff Lemieux Greenbelt is putting the finishing touches on a great new bike trail that connects Cherrywood Lane, a key bike route that goes past the Greenbelt Metro station, with Branchville Ave, which is the main access road to … Read More

1 May 2017

How to Go Car-Less in Greenbelt

by Susan Harris | posted in: Transportation |

Up to date as of May 1, 2017. If you spot an error or have an something you’d like added, please describe it in a comment. In compiling this information I surveyed users of public transportation I happen to know … Read More

Greenbelt Connection, Metrobus, public transit, public transportation, The Bus
11 Dec 2016

Greenbelt is for Golf Carts! Well, NEVs

by Susan Harris | posted in: Transportation |

by Jeff Lemieux At a recent City Council work session on senior mobility, the discussion turned to personal anecdotes about unsafe elderly drivers. It’s a real dilemma, because most of us want to age in place and live out our … Read More

It's Time to Break up Maryland's State Highway Administration
7 Apr 2016

It’s Time to Break up Maryland’s State Highway Administration

by Analytic Design | posted in: Opinion, Transportation |

Maybe the best way to fight the state highway is to split it up. By Jeff Lemieux . This is a picture I took last year at the Maryland State Highway Administration’s (SHA’s) District 3 offices in Greenbelt. I don’t … Read More

Maryland, State Highway Administration
Greenbelt Loves Sunday Buses!
29 Mar 2016

Greenbelt Loves Sunday Buses!

by Susan Harris | posted in: Transportation |

After years of working to bring bus service to Greenbelt, it’s official, and the first bus rolled into town Easter morning, greeted by Mayor Emmett Jordan.  Via Facebook, he invited residents to join him at 7 a.m. to celebrate the arrival of the … Read More

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14 Sep 2015

Help Improve Metro Service to Greenbelt

by Susan Harris | posted in: Opinion, Transportation |

  By Matt Johnson, a Transit Rider in Greenbelt East. For years, many of us in the community have been fighting for Metrobus service on Sundays in Greenbelt. Today, we are closer than we have ever been, but we need … Read More

Greenbelt East, Metro, Transit
2 Jul 2015

Needed: Trail from Eleanor Roosevelt HS to Goddard

by Analytic Design | posted in: Transportation |

by Jeff Lemieux Like it or not, Greenbelt Road is our city’s Main Street. But Greenbelt Road is built more like a highway than a neighborhood connector. It has high-speed ramps and wide lanes and overhead signs that are designed … Read More

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27 Jan 2015

Greening Up the Suburbs – What to do with Greenbelt’s Empty Parking Lots?

by Analytic Design | posted in: Opinion, Transportation |

by Jeff Lemieux Last winter, my wife and I took a bike ride around Greenbelt, Maryland.  It was between 2 and 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon.  Our goal was to see how many parking lots around our shopping centers and … Read More

16 Jul 2014

Destinations on my 7-Minute Walk

by Susan Harris | posted in: Transportation |

Recently I was wondering how long it takes me to walk to Roosevelt Center, so I timed the walk and got an unexpected answer: just 7 minutes.  That means that when I drive I’m saving what – 3-4 minutes?  That thought … Read More

planned communities, walkability
19 Jan 2014

Can you Go Car-less in Greenbelt?

by Susan Harris | posted in: Transportation |

NOTE: This is now out of date. Click here for the May 1, 2017 update.  Some old friends have been following my move here and are interested in making the move (from Silver Spring), but wonder if they can manage … Read More

car-less, public transit
5 Jan 2014

Let’s Rebuild Greenbelt Road as a “Complete Street”

by Analytic Design | posted in: Opinion, Transportation |

  by Jeff Lemieux Making Greenbelt Green Again, Starting with Greenbelt Road Over the last 50 years, the state of Maryland has widened our suburban local arterial roads to the point where they’re like mini-highways, complete with on-ramps and partial … Read More

complete streets, sidewalks

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