Contact Your Home Owners'/Civic Association

We've contacted both the Country Place Civic Association and the Regency Estates Civic Associates. At the transit hearing, representatives for both associations are going to speak out against the proposal to discontinue the 37 bus. If you live in a different development along the 37 Route, won't you please contact your homeowners/civic association & see if they will also speak out? Every bit helps!

With his permission, I'm including the note that Stuart Simon wrote to the Regency Estates association board. Feel free to use it as a model for contacting your own association.

I notice that in the regular RECA NewsBriefs you always thoughtfully include the Ride On and Metrobus schedule. Did you know that if the country goes through with its plans, most of us will no longer have any viable bus service? The county has proposed ending the # 37 Ride On bus, which is the only bus operating along Tuckerman Lane between Falls Road and Old Georgetown. Without the 37 there will be no bus from our area to Grosvenor Metro. For most commuters from Regency Estates the #38 along Gainsborough to White Flint Metro is not a viable alternative as it would add 25 minutes or more each way to an already long daily commute. Stopping the 37 seems particularly ill advised with our roads becoming increasingly clogged and global climate disruption an alarming concern. Other Civic associations have already written to Councilman Roger Berliner urging him to get the County to reconsider. The County hearing on the proposed bus changes is scheduled for February 11 at 6:30pm. <

Having direct bus service to the Metro is one of the factors that attracted me to Regency Estates. It's increasingly common to see older residents using the bus line, no doubt because driving is no longer a secure or viable option. The route is also a lifeline for people who work in DC but have disabilities that prevent them from driving, which has been the case for my older son who has epilepsy. Given that the 37 bus is an extra incentive for people to live in our area it no doubt adds to our property values. For all these reasons, I urge RECA on behalf of our community to pass a resolution supporting continuation of bus service along Tuckerman Lane.

Stuart Simon