Guess When the Silver Spring Transit Center Will Open —
Win Free Dinner at 8407 kitchen bar!
Win Free Dinner at 8407 kitchen bar!
ACT is celebrating(?) the fifth anniversary of the Silver Spring Transit Center's Sept. 26, 2008 groundbreaking with a contest. Guess when it opens and win dinner for 2 at 8407 kitchen bar, one of Silver Spring's premier restaurants. Enter by joining ACT (dues are $10) or by renewing if you are already a member. You must submit an entry by Dec 31, 2013.
Click here for the entry form. Complete contest rules are on our transit center page.
A Vision of Better Transit and Better Communities
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.
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Years of experience have shown, and studies prove, that building highways leads to more traffic and more congestion. Affordable, convenient transit gives us a way to get past the traffic jams and fosters a better quality of life in our neighborhoods.
It is time to change priorities:
- Connect our communities with a network of rail lines.
- Redesign our streets to make it easier and safer to walk and to ride a bike.
- Create the kind of neighborhoods we want to live in.
The Purple Line from Bethesda to New Carrollton is the key to creating a livable, transit-oriented future for our county, but it is only a first step. The I-270 corridor needs a comprehensive transit system including a Red Line extension to Germantown, the Corridor Cities Transitway from Shady Grove to Clarksburg, all-day MARC service, and streetcars on Route 355. Light rail on U.S. 29 is part of our vision as well.
Latest Updates
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Purple Line project manager Mike Madden tells the Oct. 8 ACT meeting that the Record of Decision, which authorizes federal funding of the project, is anticipated around Dec. 5. The main opponent of the Purple Line, Columbia Country Club, folds its hand and agrees not to oppose the project in any way. $400 million in construction funding for the Purple Line brings the total state commitment to over $900 million, puttting most of the local share of project cost in place. ACT opposes the M83 highway. ACT tells County Council: Give bus rapid transit a trial run & send proposed plan back to Planning Board for fixes. ACT calls on county to repeal minimum parking requirements. |
Meetings
ACT's monthly meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month, at the Silver Spring Civic Center, One Veterans Place. Meetings begin at 7:30pm.
The Silver Spring Civic Center faces the ice rink and Ellsworth Avenue. It is an eight minute walk north from the Silver Spring Metro Station. Many bus routes can take you to and from the meeting. Ride-On #15 and #19 stop at the corner of Wayne Ave. & Fenton St.; 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. If coming by car, plentiful evening parking is available at the Wayne Avenue garage and is (despite ACT's advocacy against subsidies for drivers) free.
- December 10 - No ACT meeting
Purple Line Now gubernatorial candidate forum and fundraiser - January 14 - Annual meeting and election of officers
Bikeshare in Montgomery - How is it working?
Speaker: Shane Farthing, Executive Director, Washington Area Bicycle Association - February 11 - Speaker to be announced
- March 11 - Speaker to be announced
- April 8 - No ACT meeting
Book party for Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
New book by Ben Ross, former ACT president - May 13 - DC's Georgia Ave. corridor streetcar - could it connect to Silver Spring?
Speaker from D.C. Dept. of Transportation