anchor Description
This program provides for the planning, design, and construction of improvements such as bus lanes; queue jumps; passenger boarding and alighting improvements; implementation of transit signal priority; enhanced bus stops; and other similar capital improvements that will result in improved bus operations throughout Montgomery County. Improvements will be identified using the network specified by master plans, other planning and transit operations assessments, and community requests.
anchorCost Change
Cost change due to the addition of FY31 and FY32 to this level of effort project.
anchor Justification
Montgomery County is working towards implementation of a 102-mile bus rapid transit (BRT) network that will dramatically improve transit and support the County's economic development, equity, and environmental goals. This network is focused on ten primary corridors within Montgomery County and is an ambitious plan to improve bus transit service and refocus how people travel in Montgomery County. Individual corridor projects are complex, costly, and take several years to implement. Recognizing the importance of improving bus performance in the shorter term, the Montgomery County Department of Transportation is advancing the Bus Priority Program to provide targeted and quickly implementable improvements that will result in improved bus reliability and travel time.
anchorOther
Completed projects include: Veirs Mill Road, near the Wheaton Metrorail Station; Century Boulevard, Crystal Rock Drive and Aircraft Road near the Germantown Transit Center; and University Boulevard from Dennis Avenue to Amherst Avenue. Current and future projects include: Upgrades to the MD 97 - Georgia Avenue bus lanes, MD 355 bus lanes, and capital improvements to support the WMATA ClearLanes program.
anchorDisclosures
A pedestrian impact analysis will be performed during design or is in progress.
Expenditures will continue indefinitely.
anchorCoordination
Maryland Department of Transportation - State Highway Administration and Maryland Transit Administration, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, City of Rockville, City of Gaithersburg, local utility companies