Comments on: Blasting schedule set for Silver Spring transit center site http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/12/09/blasting-schedule-set-for-silver-spring-transit-center-site/ Your neighborhood news source Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:36:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kathy J http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/12/09/blasting-schedule-set-for-silver-spring-transit-center-site/comment-page-1/#comment-64057 Kathy J Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:14:24 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=5605#comment-64057 I thught Greyhound/Petter Pan was to move there too. I thught Greyhound/Petter Pan was to move there too.

]]> By: Jason http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/12/09/blasting-schedule-set-for-silver-spring-transit-center-site/comment-page-1/#comment-64052 Jason Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:50:36 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=5605#comment-64052 Only problem with Amtrak there is that Amtrak's one train a day (the Capitol Limited to/from Chicago) currently doesn't stop in Silver Spring and a stop so close to DC might be redundant. It would be nice and it'd have come in handy when I took the Capitol Limited last May and had to backtrack that 7 miles from Union Station to DTSS, but how many people would it truly benefit? Only problem with Amtrak there is that Amtrak’s one train a day (the Capitol Limited to/from Chicago) currently doesn’t stop in Silver Spring and a stop so close to DC might be redundant.

It would be nice and it’d have come in handy when I took the Capitol Limited last May and had to backtrack that 7 miles from Union Station to DTSS, but how many people would it truly benefit?

]]> By: Jerry A. McCoy http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/12/09/blasting-schedule-set-for-silver-spring-transit-center-site/comment-page-1/#comment-63924 Jerry A. McCoy Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:30:07 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=5605#comment-63924 "When completed, the downtown Silver Spring Transit facility will bring together bus (Metrobus, Ride-On, MTA Commuter, Van-Go, inter-city bus lines and the Un. of MD shuttle), rail (Metrorail, Amtrak, and MARC) and automobile traffic (taxi and kiss-and-ride)." Silver Spring Transit Center Aided by Transit Grant The Washington Post Montgomery Extra section p. 18 June 25, 2009 <em>Editor's note: Thanks, Jerry. I knew there was a reason to still read The Post. -- JD (Dec 9, 2009)</em> “When completed, the downtown Silver Spring Transit facility will bring together bus (Metrobus, Ride-On, MTA Commuter, Van-Go, inter-city bus lines and the Un. of MD shuttle), rail (Metrorail, Amtrak, and MARC) and automobile traffic (taxi and kiss-and-ride).”

Silver Spring Transit Center Aided by Transit Grant
The Washington Post
Montgomery Extra section p. 18
June 25, 2009

Editor’s note: Thanks, Jerry. I knew there was a reason to still read The Post. — JD (Dec 9, 2009)

]]> By: Steve http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/12/09/blasting-schedule-set-for-silver-spring-transit-center-site/comment-page-1/#comment-63911 Steve Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:47:49 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=5605#comment-63911 As noted on the "Just Up The Pike" blog recently (12/2), the most amazing thing about this whole transit centre thingy is that despite the fact that blasting is commencing and construction in some form or another has been under way for what seems like years, we still don't have a good idea of what the final project will look like. All the images that I've seen still show somewhat amorphous, generic looking structures that appear to dwarf everything around them. Even the heart of the transit centre doesn't appear too defined. The link on the SilverSpringDowntown.com website for the center says "click here" to see what it will look like, but all that does is take you to MCDOT's site which has no images of the transit center. You'd think that someone in that giant hole knows what it is their constructing. As noted on the “Just Up The Pike” blog recently (12/2), the most amazing thing about this whole transit centre thingy is that despite the fact that blasting is commencing and construction in some form or another has been under way for what seems like years, we still don’t have a good idea of what the final project will look like. All the images that I’ve seen still show somewhat amorphous, generic looking structures that appear to dwarf everything around them. Even the heart of the transit centre doesn’t appear too defined. The link on the SilverSpringDowntown.com website for the center says “click here” to see what it will look like, but all that does is take you to MCDOT’s site which has no images of the transit center.
You’d think that someone in that giant hole knows what it is their constructing.

]]> By: Jerry A. McCoy http://silverspringpenguin.com/2009/12/09/blasting-schedule-set-for-silver-spring-transit-center-site/comment-page-1/#comment-63875 Jerry A. McCoy Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:53:06 +0000 http://silverspringpenguin.com/?p=5605#comment-63875 Add Amtrak to the transit center. <em>Editor's note: This comment has not been verified. -- JD (Dec 9, 2009)</em> Add Amtrak to the transit center.

Editor’s note: This comment has not been verified. — JD (Dec 9, 2009)

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