Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row Reports That New Traffic Signal and Intersection Coming to Arlington Road in Bethesda

Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row is reporting that utility workers are installing traffic signals, and creating a new controlled intersection in the middle of Arlington Road between Bethesda Avenue and Bradley Boulevard. The new intersection is part of the approved plan for the mixed-use residential/Ourisman Volkswagen project at 7001 Arlington Road, currently under construction where the U.S. Post Office once stood.

A new driveway entrance into that development will comprise one side of the new intersection; the other will be an existing curb cut into the Bradley Shopping Center near Strosniders Hardware.

The intersection is part of 7001’s site plan, designed to promote the pedestrian safety and traffic circulation goals recommended by the Bethesda Central Business District master plan. Why is it going up before the building is finished? Because the county is requiring the traffic signals to be operational before it will issue an occupancy permit for the building.

Read more about the new signal here.