Rockville Citizen Service Requests

Due to improperly configured light timing at Fishers Lane and Ardennes Ave along Twinbrook Pkwy traffic is very congested even during non-peak hours. Drivers on Twinbrook Pkwy often sit, gridlocked, at these two lights as they complete a full cycle with little or no traffic entering from the side roads. The traffic light timing needs to be adjusted here to ease congestion.

Everyone is taking shopping carts back to their homes and leaving them on street corners. Stores need to make them unaccessable to leaving the parking lots.

1) Motorists traveling east on MD 28 (W Montgomery Avenue) frequently race through yellow/red light and/or block crosswalk at Nelson St and MD 28.
2) Motorists exiting I-270 fail to completely stop for right turn on red and do not yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk (crossing the I-270 off-ramp).
3) Motorists exiting I-270 fail to yield to pedestrians with illuminated walk signal crossing MD 28 in the crosswalk at Nelson St.

Please improve signage and initiate enforcement of existing laws to make this critical area safer for pedestrians. Access to the pedestrian bridge across I-270 is very dangerous because of motorist behavior in this area.

On Drake Dr. (and Sloan St.), younger families are moving in next to older residents. These newbies will NOT be considerate of the original residents. So, older ones, (who are often in poor health), must endure the chaos of screaming kids, basketball hoops, (and ball bouncing without hoops), trampolines, playground equipment, windchimes, and skateboarding near their homes. If an older resident asks the parents for consideration, they will either be ignored, or the noise will be increased out of spite. If the parents are hostile and unapproachable and older residents simply ask a disruptive kid to pipe-down, the parents will make harrassing calls to the complainent, and harrassing visits in which they aggressively pound on the poor resident's door in order to force a confrontation. If this doesn't work, they call the police and threaten to get a peace order against the resident if they merely talk to their kids again...even politely. This is typical behavior of these new, young families. We have no homeowner's association. Only a civic association that hasn't the authority to make these bad new neighbors behave. The noise control folks can't help, because most of the noise laws aren't strong enough. We can't even get our streets declared as a Noise Sensitive Area, because the control staff require the NAMES of residents who request it to be given to every single household on these streets...including households that are very hostile. So, I'm SCARED to go this route. I sure do wish that the realestate men wouldn't sell any more homes to young families on our older streets. The ones that are already here have created an unbearable situation already! I live in terror of whom they'll put near our home next, but older residents like myself have no voice! It seems, the newbies will push us out with their chaotic behavior. I can't even enjoy comuning with nature in my own yard, or even curling up with a good book anymore.

The streetlight next to the bus stop on westbound Wootton Parkway at Preserve Parkway is out.