MCDOT Awarded Transportation Alternatives Grant to Design Missing Link in the Forest Glen Road Sidewalk

For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 19, 2018

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) has received a $248,000 grant to complete preliminary design for a sidewalk on the north side of Forest Glen Road in Silver Spring that will close a missing pedestrian link. The sidewalk will extend from Woodland Drive to Sligo Creek Parkway, providing access to the Forest Glen Metro Station, Forest Glen Medical Center, Holy Cross Hospital, Sligo Creek Stream Valley Park and Sligo Creek Trail.

 

Funding for the project came from the Transportation Alternatives Program, which funds transportation projects other than traditional highway construction and was approved this week by the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

 

The grant will be used to prepare a preliminary, 35 percent, engineering design of a 2,700-foot-ling, five-foot-wide concrete sidewalk. Plans include replacing the existing bike lane and Sharrow within the project limits with a separate bike lane to enhance bicyclist safety.

 

 

 

 

Release ID: 18-136
Media Contact: Esther Bowring 240-777-7170