Bonifant Street Gets the Boot
The west end of Bonifant Street has been abandoned, writes The Gazette.
Like an extra toe or vestigial tail, the dead-end road was snipped last week, discarded by the planning board so that developers can build the Silver Spring Transit Center (above) on top of it next year.
The 5.7-acre transit center hooks up Metro and MARC rails to bus service, pedestrian and bike trails, and the proposed Purple Line, writes the Gazette. Bonifant Street will be used to build part of a bus circulation area.
The $75 million development will have three tiers: buses get the first and second tiers, Kiss and Ride gets the top bunk.
Thanks to the Silver Spring Scene for the image.
"Plans for $75M Transit Center Claim Part of Bonifant Street" (The Gazette)
3 comments:
Was that the only update from the presentation before the Planning Board last Thursday?
That's more or less what The Gazette reports.
Turns out that last Thursday's planning board meeting didn't include a full-length update on the transit center. Just an up-or-down vote on whether the county should abandon Bonifant Street's west end, which was approved.
I think I referred to the vote as a "project update" in one posting. My bad. Will fix.
Thanks...I am really eager to see what the final project is going to look like, especially after the bashing that Silver Spring Scene gave the preliminary renderings.
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