Proposals to make Cherrywood & MD 193 into urban boulevards would be a huge improvement over what’s there now. Bus hubs at Greenbelt Metro, Beltway Plaza and Greenwood Center are also interesting. There’s enough empty parking lot at Beltway Plaza to make a large one.

However, the project team has its work cut out for it to show how the diverging diamond is supposed to be an improvement. Sure, it would improve things for cars, but would pedestrians or cyclists get through there in one piece ? If anything, it looks worse for accessibility than what’s already there, which is really saying something, considering what a barrier that intersection is now.

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