Biking in Baltimore
Time Saturday, May 14 · 9:00am – 12:00pm
Location Druid Hill Complex at 3100 Swan Drive
Please Meet at the Druid Hill Complex at 3100 Swan Drive at 9AM. Bring your bike and be ready to ride and clean the Jones Falls Trail. Picking up trash and removing broken glass, sprucing up sign beds. Please RSVP to molly.gallant@baltimorecity.gov or
by phone at 443-984-4058.
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Time Friday, May 13 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location Meet at Lake Montebello : top of the hill near Harford Road side
Meet at Lake Montebello and head to 895. Yup, that’s right, to 895 through Herring Run Park. This trip is a combination of paved/sand/dirt trails and street riding. Not to mention the exciting stream crossing! Please bring a patch kit and a spare tube. Unfortunately, this trip is not recommended for persons under 12. Round Trip is about 8 miles and should take about 2 hours. Please RSVP to molly.gallant@baltimorecity.gov or by phone at 443-984-4058.
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By David Greisman – Columbia Patch
It took about four weeks and more than 1,000 miles of pedaling, but Stacy Heiliger made it, bicycling all the way around the Chesapeake Bay, setting off from Columbia on April 5 and making it back home on May 3.
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“I had thought that a long-distance cycling trip would be a lot of fun, but I was kind of nervous to try it ’cause I had never done it before. This way I was always just a few hours away [from family members] in case I had a meltdown on the side of the road, got injured, had a mechanical problem or wasn’t having fun.
“I was already familiar with Maryland and a lot of the areas I was going to, but a lot of it was new areas. There were places that I knew were there by the maps, but I’d never been there before. That was a whole lot of fun, just discovering different parts of the Chesapeake Bay and different communities that were off the beaten path.
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On Wednesday, Judy Wexler will pedal furiously, hoping to generate the force needed to lift a human-powered helicopter off the ground and win a $250,000 prize.
The biology student at the University of Maryland is a competitive cyclist with a desirable power-to-weight ratio and endurance, noted Brandon Bush, a graduate student in the university’s school of engineering and project team member.
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The University of Maryland will live stream Wednesday’s test between 9 a.m. and 12 a.m. ET. Click here to check it out.
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Thursday at 9:00pm – Friday at 12:00am
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For more info, visit Aaron’s website.
https://ukulelebybicycle.blogspot.com/
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Another springboard, this time from The Transport Politic
They have this quote:
» If we insist on charging car users to fund transit, we have to accept increasing highway spending in exchange for more public transport subsidies.
Which would more accurately put:
If we insist on not charging motorists for police, emergency services, long term road maintenance, (and they do not even pay a 100% of the new roads or general maintenance of the roads they use,) they will continue to need far greater subsidies then what has been “taken” by transit and other “non-motorized” uses.
Transit users pay into the system basically the same way auto users pay into the system, that it is to say what is paid in as “user fees” does not pay for everything that is used. It’s time to call a halt to this scam, as much as we would like to support more cars no one can afford it it. That’s is what is meant by not sustainable.
We are at a point if we gave all the money by motoring to motoring and all the current subsidies to mass transit and alternate uses it would be a huge boon to mass transit and other alternate modes of transportation and a huge loss to motoring.
Taxes for motoring have not kept up with the need and I don’t want to hear motoring is expensive enough without new taxes as that is precisely the point that has been proven… Support for motoring is really, really expensive and individuals don’t want to pay for it and we do not want to pay for it as a society.
I am using Cap’n Transit as a springboard with this chart:
The faster cars can drive the more things that are convenient to get to and all those pesty little things in the lower right corner of the chart can be damed.
This kind of thinking has gone to such extremes like in Fells Point where minimizing delays only for motorists at minor intersections with no thought of improving throughput of the street as a whole (think synchronizing lights)
We need better and diverse solutions for all problems shown. Access and comfort are for all people and not just cars. Access and comfort is not a game to be won by shear MPH alone.
Not much detail on how/why of the crashes other then possible intoxication. The driver has been taken into custody and charges pending. One student is in critical condition but expected to survive and the other student is expected to survive as well.
