Category: Biking in Baltimore

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Police Search For Shooting Suspect in Baltimore

via Washington CBS Local

Baltimore City Police are searching for a suspect they say shot a man multiple times while he was riding a bicycle.

Around 3:15 p.m., police responded to the intersection of E. Monument Street and Madison Street for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, they found a 20-year-old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

He was transported to a local hospital where he is listed in critical, but stable condition.

Police say they believe the man was shot while riding his bike in the 1200 block of E. Monument Street near the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Detectives from the Eastern District are asking anyone with information on this incident to call 410-396-2433.

https://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/06/16/police-search-for-shooting-suspect-in-baltimore/

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Ride Around the Reservoir 2014

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Ride around the Reservoir in Druid Hill Park every Monday and Wednesday, May – Aug, 5 – 8 p.m.

  

Laps around the Lake at Lake Montebello every Tuesday and Thursday,   May – August,
5 – 8 p.m. 
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Historic Trees by Bike: May 4 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm $15

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“View of Baltimore from Howard’s Park,” George Beck, 1796, Maryland Historical Society. Image from The Antheneum.

We know that Baltimore is full of great historic buildings, but who knew that our city can boast a wonderful collection of historic trees? Among the dozens of our city’s leafy landmarks stands an English Elm that shaded Frederick Douglass as he delivered a public speech in 1878 in Sharp Leadenhall, one of George Washington’s celebrated “Cambridge Elms” (planted in 1932 as part of our first president’s 200th birthday celebration), and a baby Wye Oak that President Gerald Ford planted in 1976 at Fort McHenry. And that’s not to mention the exceptionally rare European Turkey Oak (Quercus cerrus) that graces the War of 1812 battery now called Riverside Park.

Please join us and the Urban Forestry Division of the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks on an easy-going bike tour of historic trees in Central and South Baltimore. Mr. Gary Letteron, urban forester and tree champion extraordinaire, will lead the tour and talk horticulture and history as we wind our way through Federal Hill and parts of South Baltimore. The tour will start and end at the parking lot of the Baltimore Museum of Industry.

To register: https://baltimoreheritage.org/event/historic-trees-by-bike-douglass-oak-washingtons-elms-and-more-leafy-landmarks/

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Seeking Witnesses To Catonsville Car-Bicycle Crash on March 13 – Please Forward Widely!

By Seth Lueck, Bikemore

On March 13, sometime in the late afternoon or early evening, Bikemore’s treasurer Tim Adams was riding his bicycle home from work when a car hit him at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and South Rolling Road in Catonsville, near UMBC. (Interestingly, the Google Street View image of that intersection features someone on a bicycle.) He suffered severe injuries to his hip and his head, and had to undergo multiple surgeries, although he is slowly regaining his health.

Tim’s family is seeking eyewitness accounts of the accident. If you have any details that could aid the investigation, please contact info@bikemore.net and we will put you in touch with the family.

https://www.bikemore.net/blog/seeking-witnesses-to-catonsville-car-bicycle-crash-on-march-13-please-forward-widely

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Please support Bikemore today!

From Chris Merriam via email

Dear friends,
As you know, I am Executive Director of Bikemore, Baltimore’s bicycle advocacy group. We work to make Baltimore a place where people can comfortably ride a bicycle on city streets for fun, fitness, and transportation.

So, what does that mean, and what do we actually do? 
  • We have monthly meetings with the Baltimore City Department of Transportation (BCDOT) in which we monitor progress on a number of infrastructure and policy changes that we’ve advocated for
  • We build relationships with elected representatives, community leaders, institutions, and other stakeholders around the city to engage them in the process of making our streets more friendly to people on bicycles
  • We attend community meetings around the city to ensure that plans for roads and other public infrastructure are designed to serve people on bicycles
  • We mobilize our supporters to weigh in on bicycle-related policy or infrastructure proposals, as necessary
  • We work with Baltimore’s larger bicycle community to build a culture of bicycling in Baltimore
  • (Plus a lot more!)
And, of course, we raise money to fund all that work! It takes a group of professional advocates working (more than) full-time to accomplish these goals, and that’s why we need your support today. We appreciate whatever you can afford to give, and whatever this advocacy is worth to you. All donations to Bikemore are fully tax-deductible through our fiscal sponsor, the Greater Homewood Community Corporation.