"[Frederick] Mayor Randy McClement (R) said the city is behind the committee’s efforts, and agreed with O’Connor that the potential obstacle to implementing the group’s ideas was cost."
"Paints and signs are cheap, but they cost money. We need to know what this is going to cost and how to go about getting it. … Your ideas are wonderful. We don’t want them to go away. Come up with the dollars."
Another case of too expensive but too cheep to get the States attention that there is a problem with how it administers Federal funding.
Yep, thanks to Maryland’s highest in the nation local match requirement of 50% that enables bike/ped money to go further (at least that’s what the State claims), another plan for accommodating bicyclists will not receive any funding. Of course that’s probably not the only reason, other made up rules by the State to "promote" bicycling such as: it’s for on-road bike accommodations, it’s not part of a trail, it’s not a stand alone project and it’s not a capital expenditure probably all have something to do with not getting funding as well.
In the meantime if anyone has any ideas on how to spend the $25 million of unspent/unobligated Transportation Enhancement money that Maryland has on bike/ped projects get them into the long rang plans.
You see the problem is not lack of funding but that of trying to shoehorn bike/ped improvements into a process that is designed solely new and very expensive transportation projects. In other words you really cannot go back and enhance existing roads for bike/peds with Enhancement funding per rules our State made up.
https://www.gazette.net/stories/12092010/frednew144300_32584.phpoldId.20101220174436414
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