East Rockville Summer News

Though ERCA is not having any meetings during this summer, several different things are going on in the neighborhood during the summer months. Though delayed, the South Stonestreet Avenue road diet is currently underway, and when I passed by this morning the new sidewalk on the western side of the street, adjacent to Rockville Station, was visible and seemed to be nearly completed. Construction on the promised bike lane on the northbound side of the street, however, did not seem to have begun. In the Southlawn area, an asphalt crushing facility is being planned for a site on Old Dover Road, which, according to an extremely comprehensive review of the project by Suzan Pitman, the civic association president, does not seem like it will have a tremendous impact, whether environmental, noise-related, or traffic-related, on East Rockville or Lincoln Park. Finally, as part of a project that I am working on through an organization called LearnServe International, I am looking to widen the scope of involvement in the civic association by encouraging East Rockville residents to go to at least two different neighbors this summer and informing them about ERCA and what the organization does. If possible, it would be best if their email addresses could be collected in order to add them to the ERCA email list to help them become aware of what is going on in their neighborhood.