<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Funny you bring this up. I recently was reading a newspaper from 1939, researching the history of the town of Riverdale Park's <span id="misspell-1" class="mark">WPA</span> built community center building (the one the town recently sold to park and planning) </span></div><div>And came across an <span id="misspell-2" class=""><span>article</span></span> about a proposed shuttle bus taking residents from Riverdale to shopping in <span id="misspell-4" class="mark">Hyattsville</span>.</div><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Sue Collins <wheadle@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> "TownTalk@riverdale-park.org" <TownTalk@riverdale-park.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 23, 2011 9:57 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [RP TownTalk] Parking, etc<br></font><br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv449321666"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style=""><span style="" class="yiv449321666tab"> Even though I don't drive, I've been reading the posts about problems parking at the Shops on Route 1. Just a small preview of what's to come as there more and more development in the area!</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="" class="yiv449321666tab">That being said - some time back I'd heard that there was a possibility that all of the University of MD Shuttle routes would be open to residents of Riverdale Park (in addition to being available to residents of College Park, I believe?). I know some routes are open to businesses that are on River Road and the surrounding area, but has anyone heard any more about this? I was thinking if the MD Shuttles were available, it might make it easier <span id="misspell-7" class="mark">fo</span> residents to get around to the shops in <span id="misspell-8" class="mark">Hyattsville</span>, College Park, etc., plus possibly ease some of the parking problems. Since the Metro/MARC accident a few years back, we don't have any <span id="misspell-9" class="mark">Metrobus</span> service going through town and as "The Bus" doesn't run on weekends we have NO bus service going through town on
Saturdays and Sundays. If we can't use the Univ. of MD. Shuttles, it would be nice to have some sort of
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