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4 Corners debate: committee rejects automatic bus‑lane presumption, asks for pedestrian‑first redesign and clearer language on Arcola right‑turns
Summary
Committee weighed tradeoffs at 4 Corners between preserving dedicated bus lanes and repurposing travel lanes to add wider pedestrian buffers and sidepaths.
Committee members debated two distinct approaches for the constrained 4 Corners segment of University Boulevard where right‑of‑way is limited and pedestrian volumes are high, notably because of nearby Montgomery Blair High School.
The planning board draft recommends preserving or adding dedicated bus lanes through 4 Corners (consistent with an earlier 2013 transit corridors approach) and building phase 1/2 incremental improvements. The public hearing draft instead proposed repurposing an existing travel lane in each direction to provide a wider pedestrian breezeway (sidepath) and street tree buffer without acquiring additional right‑of‑way.
MCDOT noted both options…
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