Discussion on skateboarding in Silver Spring grinds on.

"I'm hoping that we get what we've been asking for for going on two years now: an additional skate park, a parking lot, an alley, somewhere where we can go," she said. Previous calls for skate space in Silver Spring have fallen on deaf ears, she said.

Maryam Balbed, a Silver Spring resident and skateboarding activist.

Gazette.net - Silver Spring, MD  8/18/2010