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One Less Car meeting with MDOT/SHA
From One Less Car:
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to give you all a brief synopsis of a meeting that Mark Counselman and
I had last Thursday with John Porcari, Secretary of the Maryland
Department of Transportation, Neil Pedersen, the SHA administrator and Sam
Minnitte, the director of planning for MDOT. Our agenda centered on
ensuring that the state of Maryland have a fully engaged “complete streets”
policy where the safety and convenience of all road users (bike/ped/
transit/cars) is accommodated.
The best news was that the Secretary agreed that county transportation engineers
need training to ensure that local roads are safe for bikes, peds
and transit users. His proposed solution (which we fully agree with) was to
make complete streets training a state funding requirement for local
DOTs. This means that state funds that go to the counties for road construction
would come with a comprehensive complete streets training
component. Right now training for bike/ped/transit accommodations is lacking in
many county DOT offices. This could potentially remedy that
problem. We will definitely be following up with the Secretary to make sure
that this becomes a reality
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