World Day of Remembrance with Montgomery County Families For Safe Streets 2025

Sunday, November 16, 2025 - 6:00pm
Marian Fryer Plaza

Hosted by Montgomery County Families For Safe Streets

Join Montgomery County Families For Safe streets to honor lives lost to traffic violence and to call for safer streets in our County. At Marian Fryer Plaza in Wheaton we will hear from families and friends affected by the loss of loved ones in traffic crashes and to advocate for Vision Zero and safer infrastructure for all who walk, bike, and access transit.

Event Details:

Sunday, November 16, 2026

6pm – 7:30pm

Marian Fryer Plaza (Above the Wheaton Metro Station, across from 2425 Reedie Drive)

Join Montgomery County Families for Safe Streets for a gathering to honor loved ones who died in traffic crashes. White and yellow text over a black background with an image of candles burning.

Earlier on November 16, you can join a bike ride from Bethesda to the Lincoln Memorial on The Ride For Your Life, or gather at the Bethesda or Silver Spring Metro at 11:00am to metro to Foggy Bottom metro and walk to the Lincoln Memorial Rally.

Learn more about Montgomery County Families for Safe Streets.

Learn more about World Day of Remembrance.

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The Complete State Roads–Montgomery County report is available at waba.org/stateroads and you can watch a presentation delivered about it at WABA’s 4th Great Montgomery County Bike Summit in 2023.

As part of the Complete State Roads initiative, WABA backed the development of legislation for introduction in the 2024 Maryland legislative session.

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Montgomery County's piecemeal approach to building bike infrastructure is not aligned with its stated climate, safety, and equity goals,

In 2021, WABA assembled a proposal that prioritized projects in the county's existing (and laudabe!) Bicycle Master Plan within county-designates Equity Focus Areas. You can read the report here. With around $110 million, the County could build all of the Tier 1 bikeway projects in most of the equity emphasis areas in the County. This dollar amount spread over the FY 23-28 six year capital budget period is consistent with current commitments to biking and walking

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Effective Complete Streets policies change the way a jurisdiction plans and builds transportation infrastructure—sidewalks, low stress bike infrastructure, and transit should be included in any new or rebuilt street by default, rather than as an add-on when there's space or demand.

While most regional jurisdictions have a Complete Streets policy of some sort, they lack teeth and permit transportation departments to continue to build streets that put cars first and squeeze other modes into the margins.

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We educate policymakers and organize grassroots advocates for to speak up for safer places to bike and walk; and for laws and policies that protect people who are walking and biking, reduce dangerous driving, and facilitate changes to the built environment.