Of 10 regional transportation-improvement options designated last summer by the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board for further study, the clear worst is an additional Potomac River bridge + Montgomery County highway corridor. Add that such a project would be hugely expensive and environmentally destructive, cutting a swath across Montgomery County’s Agricultural Reserve.

The image here is from the Long-Range Plan Task Force: Draft Analysis Results, available at https://t.co/Fs9qBlhIAD.

I’m glad Montgomery County (http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/Resources/Files/res/2017/20170718_18-870.pdf) and the City of Takoma Park both voted to oppose consideration of this option, and thanks to the Montgomery Countryside Alliance and the Coalition for Smarter Growth for their advocacy.