Update: White Flint Group Invites Community to take Walk with Former Governor

The walking tour of White Flint to focus on current conditions and planned pedestrian improvements to the developing area

October 8, 2014 10:17 a.m.

Update – Oct. 10 – 1:15 p.m. – Due to concerns about rain on Saturday morning, the walking tour has been rescheduled to Saturday, October 25th at 9:15 a.m.

Friends of White Flint will continue to push for a more walkable Rockville Pike area by hosting a community walk Saturday Oct. 25 with former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening that will focus on pedestrian infrastructure.

The approximately 75-minute walk will begin at the Pike Central Farmers Market at the corner of Old Georgetown Road and Executive Boulevard at 9:15 a.m. and continue for about a mile. White Flint Executive Director Lindsay Hoffman and Glendening will lead the tour.

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Friends of White Flint, a nonprofit comprised of White Flint businesses, developers and residents, has criticized county and state plans to keep Old Georgetown Road between Executive Boulevard and Rockville Pike a six-lane road with multiple turning lanes as they reconstruct the road. The group, which advocates for the implementation of the White Flint Sector Plan, believes the road should be narrowed to four lanes and include a bike lane and shared use path to conform with the sector plan.

However, state engineers say the state road handles too much traffic to reduce the number of lanes.

Glendening is president of the Governors’ Institute on Community Design, a federal initiative that receives funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Transportation. The institute advises state leaders on local development and growth issues, according to the group’s website. Glendening served as Maryland governor from 1995 to 2003.

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