Month: March 2006

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Whole Foods goes with the wind

By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY
Whole Foods Market is about to put some serious wind in its sales.
The trend-setting, natural foods grocery chain on Wednesday will announce plans to become the largest buyer of wind energy credits in North America by purchasing credits equal to 100% of its projected energy use for 2006.
That will make Whole Foods the only Fortune 500 company to purchase renewable energy credits
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Bike stolen

looking for an old friend – 22

"lost" via smashing in the windows on my car…

a LeMond buenos aires road bike…
bright red with yellow, vertical "JCS" stickers on each side of the seat tube above the LeMond logo(added after photos below). yellow michelin tire in the front (also not visible below) and gray hutchinson in the rear on low spoke count wheels. full ultegra/9spd. size 55 cm. irreplaceable since full steel buenos models are no longer manufactured, plus sentimental value. please help, we’ve spent a lot of my favorite afternoons together.

this is in or around federal hill
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Mayor’s response to trolley path bus parking problem

This has been an ongoing problem because there are no established rules for the old trolley lane. People take it over by force of will, and anybody does whatever they want in that space.

This is about to change. The space is supposed to only be used by City vehicles and bicyclists. The Dept. of Transportation is in the process of designing a bicycle Trail system that would run in that location, establish rules for its use, and increase safety for peds and bikes through better design and signage. Carley Francis at Planning is working on this project with Nasser Rahimi in Transportation. My message to you is that we’re working on it, it will improve, and it will be reserved for bikes, peds, and official City vehicles. The name will be the Jones Falls Trail. The design will probably be finished in six months, but you can check with Nasser regarding those details.

Bike safe and all the best.

Martin O’Malley

Mayor

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BaltoCo Bike/ped plan moving forward

Baltimore County has
identified a preliminary
or pilot bicycle network within their Eastern Baltimore County
Pedestrian and Bicycle
Access Plan. That network is available for review here: https://resources.co.ba.md.us/Documents/Planning/Pilot%20Projects.pdf

The Perry Hall Blvd
sidepath is currently seeking funding through
bond bills HB
1117 &
SB
671 with
an equal match from the County. So stay tuned for how you can support
this
project.

In
the mean time comments
are welcome about this pilot network (read more.)

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