{"id":3869,"date":"2014-08-25T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2014-08-26T00:42:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T04:42:51","slug":"woodmont-avenue-staying-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"Woodmont Avenue Staying Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdamagazine.com\/Bethesda-Beat\/2014\/Woodmont-Avenue-Near-Development-To-Remain-Closed-Until-January\/\">Bethesda Magazine<\/a> reports that the opening&#8211;much heralded by large signs in the area&#8211;will not occur after all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Montgomery County spokeswoman Sue Tucker said inspectors visited the site and worried about safety concerns at the construction site, which includes a new underground parking garage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The county has gone out there and decided it will not open until the garage opens, which is planned in January,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the new projected timeline for opening and the ease on traffic on the area is now postponed at least six months beyond the original two-year deadline. See also the story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdanow.com\/2014\/08\/25\/bethesdas-woodmont-avenue-could-remain-closed-until-2015\/\">Bethesda Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the question is why weren&#8217;t these problems foreseen when the County approved the plan to reopen the street while construction continued on the two buildings?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda Magazine reports that the opening&#8211;much heralded by large signs in the area&#8211;will not occur after all: Montgomery County spokeswoman Sue Tucker said inspectors visited the site and worried about safety concerns at the construction site, which includes a new underground parking garage. &#8220;The county has gone out there and decided it will not open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=3869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woodmont Avenue Staying Closed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bethesda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-10p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}