Funding Flash: A land value tax can keep MD 355’s bus rapid transit on track (opens in new tab)

In 2013, the Montgomery County Council approved the construction of a Bus Rapid Transit line on Route 355, an increasingly congested north-south arterial that connects Rockville and Bethesda to job centers in DC. BRT was seen as a necessary investment to successfully transition the area from a collection of strip malls on the side of a busy road into an increasingly dense place with its own identity that surrounding county residents might like to visit and even (gasp!) walk around in. After c...