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For years, we have been telling anyone who would listen that Forest Glen Road and Georgia Avenue, while seemingly innocuous compared to some of the big name intersections in our county, is actually the most dangerous near a Metro stop. Now that Montgomery County is making its police information available online, via CrimeReports.com, we finally have the evidence to back up our claims. Our research on traffic accidents on CrimeReports.com has uncovered some truly remarkable data: Traffic Incidents within a 1-block radius of a Metro stop: (11/07-1/08)
| Rank | Metro Stop
| # of traffic incidents
| | 1 | Forest Glen
| 45
| | 2 | Wheaton | 27 | | 3 | Glenmont | 26 | | 4 | White Flint
| 23 | | 5 | Silver Spring
| 16 | | 6 | Medical Center
| 15 | | 7 | Bethesda | 11 | | 7 | Shady Grove
| 11 | | 7 | Twinbrook | 11 | | 10 | Grosvenor | 9 | | 11 | Rockville | 7 |
On average, we are talking about an accident every other day at this intersection. The other dangerous intersections near Metro have pedestrian overpasses or tunnels. Forest Glen does not. So WMATA asks its Forest Glen/Holy Cross hospital customers to walk through the most dangerous intersection near a Metro stop, without the pedestrian safety measures that other Metro stops are afforded. Seems backwards to us...
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