To tell us about something you have discovered or seen in the course of your work on the strategic roads network (roads controlled by National Highways) or about your work with National Highways. The monitoring framework requires National Highways to publish extensive information on its plans and performance, and we make public our assessment of its operational and financial performance each year.įurther information as to the scope of our role is set out in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department for Transport (DfT) and ORR and statutory guidance. to advise the Secretary of State on any other relevant issues.to advise the Secretary of State on the development of the next RIS, including advice on setting challenging and deliverable efficiencies and.where we have concerns about the company’s ability to deliver against its requirements, to seek improvements and potentially levy a fine (together, 'enforcement').to monitor how well National Highways is delivering against the Performance Specification, Investment Plan and aspects of its Licence, to publicly report our findings and to advise the Secretary of State.Our role as the Highways Monitor is to hold the company to account and where necessary advise the Secretary of State.Īt a high level there are four main aspects to our role: It set up a Watchdog –Transport Focus – to champion the needs to road users. If coming by car, plentiful evening parking is available at the Town Square garage on Ellsworth Drive and at the Wayne Avenue garage, both at reasonable cost.As part of its roads reform package, the government set up a new company to maintain, renew, operate and improve the motorways and main ‘A’ roads in England – this is National Highways (formerly Highways England). Metrobus routes Z6 and Z8 and Ride-On routes #9 and #12 stop along Colesville Road Ride-On #16, #17, and #20 pass by on Fenton St.
Ride-On #15 and #19 stop at the corner of Wayne Ave. Many bus routes can take you to and from the meeting. It is an eight minute walk north from the Silver Spring Metro Station. The Silver Spring Civic Center faces the ice rink and Ellsworth Avenue. We have returned to in person meetings at Silver Spring Civic CenterĪCT's monthly meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month, at the Silver Spring Civic Center, One Veterans Place. Lev Boonin has joined ACT staff as our organizer. This road diet narrowed the roadway from 4 lanes to 2 and solved a severe safety problem where the Parkway crosses the Capital Crescent Trail.Įrik Herron has been elected as an ACT Vice-President, replacing James Hedrick who resigned when he was elected to the county Planning Board. Parks & Planning Board votes 4-0, with one abstention, to make the Little Falls Parkway road diet permanent. In the long run, we will need a Red Line extension to Germantown, the Corridor Cities Transitway from Shady Grove to Clarksburg, streetcars on Route 355, and light rail on U.S. End traffic deaths through Vision Zero.Run trains all day on the MARC line to Frederick as part of a comprehensive rail network for Maryland.The next steps for Montgomery County are: The Purple Line from Bethesda to New Carrollton, now under construction, is the key to creating a livable, transit-oriented future for our county, but it is only a first step. Create the kind of neighborhoods we want to live in.Redesign our streets to make it easier and safer to walk and to ride a bike.Connect our communities with a network of rail lines.Affordable, convenient transit gives us a way to get past the traffic jams and fosters a better quality of life in our neighborhoods. Years of experience have shown, and studies prove, that building highways leads to more traffic and more congestion. The Action Committee for Transit has a vision of a Montgomery County where it is easier to travel and more pleasant to live - a county built for people and not for automobiles.Ĭlick on the image above to see a larger version of the same map. A Vision of Better Transit and Better Communities
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