Road Resurfacing

By Kevin Harris

I have an update on road resurfacing for the neighborhood. Our neighborhood was scheduled for a complete hot-mix asphalt repaving last spring but, as the date became closer, it was removed from the website.

I contacted the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (DOT) last summer and they told me that, due to budget reasons, it had been postponed by two years. I contacted our Councilmember, Tom Hucker, a few weeks ago and then was connected to the head of the Department of Transportation. The road resurfacing is scheduled now to begin after 1 July 2015 for all areas south of Hannes Road to Colesville Road in two phases (see map below).

Unfortunately, WSSC is doing work on Hannes Street north to Loxford Terrace over the next two years, so the repaving will not begin until after that because they don’t want to pave, have it dug up by WSSC, and then have to pave again. The WSSC project info can be found at http://gisweb.wsscwater.com/InYourNeighborhood/.

This map from the MoCo Department of Transportation shows the proposed schedule for repaving our neighborhood roads.

Note: As of 10 July 2015, the schedule for residential repaving in our neighborhood has been pushed back. Northwood Park Phases I and II are now scheduled for FY2017; Northwood Park Phase III will take place in FY2018. This does not cover the entire neighborhood, only from Colesville Road and University Boulevard to Royalton Road and Dennis Avenue. See the schedule online at www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT-Highway/roadmaint/ Pavement_Management/Residental/Residential2YrOutlook.html ■