Stand in Support of Vision Zero

I submit the following items to you for consideration and hopeful action. 1. We need better (not necessarily more) signage and signaling for our blind and low vision residents. 2. Pedestrians are in jeopardy of both cars and bicycles when crossing roads given the proliferation of bike lanes. These new lanes wreak havoc for residents who are blind, disabled and those using service dogs. 3. e-scooters are also out of control where we need to move past the county’s pilot program to one where law enforcement can crack down on those who are not operating them responsibly, putting pedestrians in jeopardy. 4. We need a county wide review to get things moved off of sidewalks that don’t belong there. We wouldn’t tolerate random items being placed in streets where vehicle traffic exists yet we allow so many things to be placed in the middle of sidewalks making it precarious for individuals who are blind, with limited mobility, users of wheelchair and those with service dogs.

Barnesville wants to make it safe for our residents to walk to the train station. Presently, cars have been ticketed going over 70 miles per hour from the center of town to the train station. A sidewalk would go a long way to helping us be safer and greener. Thank you for your time and consideration of Vision Zero.

Thank you for being a leader on this. More left hand signals and four way crossing is needed on Wisconsin Avenue bordering downtown Bethesda. Thank you!

We must make roads safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.

Please make our streets safer for walkers and bicyclist. My kids go to Walter Johnson and I am very concerned about how dangerous the crosswalk is across democracy blvd from Davis Library to Walter Johnson. It’s a 6 Lane road and the yellow caution sign is very hard to see, we need a pedestrian light there for kids to safely walk across told Georgetown road .

I survived being hit by a car while crossing Maryland Ave in Rockville Town Center. I was in a crosswalk which now, 8 years later, has some pedestrian friendly upgrades. Why do we wait for people to get killed. I drive but believe strongly in cameras.

Certainly Montgomery County can do better than this. We need to learn more about why these serious accidents are occurring and take the appropriate actions. Thank you. Sincerely,

We need safer streets for bikers and pedestrians!!

As an avid cyclist I cannot recall the number of times I have narrowly avoided colliding with cars.

It's past time to get commuters out of their cars and into public transportation

This is a critical initiative and must be progressed to achieve pedestrian safety.

Thank you for making safety a priority. Silver Spring has a lot of narrow sidewalks with obstacles like telephone poles or overgrown shrubs that force pedestrians into the street. The new bike lanes on Fenton and Spring St have some weird/dangerous crossovers (e.g., on Fenton near Wayne. Drivers can't see the bikers behind the row of parked cars, then the bikers emerge where the lane cuts across traffic.) All the small utility access lines are positioned right in the middle of the lanes making it an annoyingly bumpy ride. Thus for many reasons, I prefer to ride in the car lane. But the numerous cross cuts in the road surface due to road work also make it dangerous for bikers. I've nearly been thrown from my bike several time.

Bike lanes sound good to me. It also encourages the use of bikes for transportation.

Street light updates are needed as well as additional flashing crosswalks.

Although pedestrian education is an important part of the solution, we must be careful not to over-ticket pedestrians, which disproportionately targets minorities.

Streets do not just belong to cars. Let's keep pedestrians able to walk in safety!

Sidewalks are desperately needed in Barnesville. There is no safe way to walk to the train station and the post office as well as the elementary school and town hall. If we had safe sidewalks to use, the demand for parking at the Train Station would go down and residents including children could get exercise walking to school, the post office and town center, meeting neighbors along the way and building a sense of community. Please take a look at this issue and build these sidewalks. It shouldn't take 20 years of letter writing to make this happen.

I fully agree. We need more physical structures, such as traffic calming measures, traffic lights for pedestrian crossings, more sidewalks and better sidewalks, better wheelchair ramps, an physical barriers separating cars from people. For too long the main objective in road construction was to move cars as quickly as possible. This mentality must stop. We need to think people's safety first, driving convenience third or fourth.

A concerned bicyclist

Maryland DOT needs to repaint crosswalks in Silver Spring, especially Colesville Road at Beltway entrances & exits. Blair High School students walk across these ramps every morning and every evening during rush hour traffic!