Monday, October 22, 2012
Second District police officers responded on the trail Sunday evening.
Update, 9:35 a.m.: A 21-year-old woman told police she was knocked unconscious, dragged into the woods and possibly sexually assaulted while she was jogging on the Capital Crescent Trail Sunday evening. Police responded at the trail around 7:13 p.m., according to police spokeswoman Angela Cruz. The woman said she had been jogging on the trail near the 4900 block of Brookeway Drive in Bethesda, between Massachusetts Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, when she stopped to allow deer to pass. That’s when she said she was struck in the head from behind and knocked unconscious, Cruz said. The woman awoke in the woods a short time later and was able to return to the trail and call for help. A jogger helped her to the 4900 block of Brookeway Drive…
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Police are investigating whether a juvenile arrested in a Sept. 29 assault in the Capital Crescent Trail tunnel is linked to a similar assault July 20.
Two of the three recent attacks in the Capital Crescent Trail tunnel may be linked, according to Montgomery County police, and investigators have made two arrests in a July 6 tunnel assault thought to be unrelated. On Oct. 4, county police arrested a juvenile male in a Sept. 29 assault and attempted robbery in the tunnel during which a boy was approached by a group of teens and punched in the head and face, Patch reported. Police say that case may be linked to a July 20 tunnel robbery during which a victim was assaulted by a group of four teens and punched in the face, according to Capt. David Falcinelli, commander of county police’s second district. "We believe the Sept. 29 and the July 20 incidents are linked in some manner and we're …
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
A local resident and education professor writes about the importance of environmental justice, community health and childhood development to the decision-making process that is determining the future of the Capital Crescent Trail.
Editor’s note: This is an opinion piece submitted to Chevy Chase Patch by a member of the community. As an opinion piece, it does not represent the views of Patch. Now that the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) has presented its options for the Tunnel on the Trail—including astronomical costs to shove two tracks and a trail into an already problematic space—it’s time to call a halt and rethink the whole proposal. Planners take many variables into account, but the variable of economic development should not dominate the decision-making as it has in the case of the Purple Line. I suggest that other variables—environmental justice, community health and childhood development—now take precedence. Environmental justice is not served when …
Friday, November 4, 2011
To include the Capital Crescent Trail with the Purple Line through a tunnel under Wisconsin Avenue at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase border would be more costly than re-routing the trail at the street level, but the street-level route could be more dangerous.
Members of the Montgomery County Planning Board met with staff members of the Maryland Transit Authority on Thursday morning to examine the tunnel that runs under Wisconsin Avenue at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase line. Currently, the route of the Capital Crescent Trail runs through the tunnel, and the Purple Line light rail (on which construction is slated to begin as early as 2015, according to the MTA) is planned to run through the tunnel. If the trail is to remain in the tunnel with the Purple Line, the trail will be reconstructed in a passageway that will run above the light rail, MTA staff members say. That could cost around 43 percent of $103 million, or around $40 million, The Washington Post has reported. Such a configuration will …
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Purple Line friends and foes, as well as those simply wanting to learn more about the planned arterial light rail, met with MTA staff at an open house in Chevy Chase on Wednesday night.
With the Purple Line now officially in the preliminary engineering stage, poster boards illustrating the light rail’s total estimated costs, along with what the Purple Line might look like, have been touring Montgomery and Prince George’s counties over the past few days at a series of open houses held by Maryland Transit Administration staff. At Wednesday’s purple balloon-festooned open house at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center, both proponents and opponents of the proposed 16-mile light rail connecting Bethesda and New Carrollton (with over 20 station stops in between) had much to say about the “Locally Preferred Alternative,” as Governor Martin O’Malley has categorized the project. “We’re really happy about how this is going,” …
Ronald Smith
11:40 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
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