from TheWashCycle by washcycle
WABA reports that PG County Executive Rushern Baker’s transition team wants to remove M-NCPPC from the review process of roads in an effort to make the process more efficient. DPW&T would do all of the reviews on their own.
To minimize the ability of [M-NCPPC]’s qualified bike and pedestrian planners to provide input on the need for road improvements and the nature of those improvements is to undermine the very improvements in bicycle and pedestrian connectivity and livable, sustainable development that County Executive Baker has extolled.
DPW&T remains, by and large, a traditional, automobiles-first transportation agency, and has been reluctant to take the steps necessary to improve roadways for the benefit of cyclists–even going so far as to recommend that a cyclist not travel a certain roadway in the county with his child due to its unsafe conditions, while refusing to make improvements.
Hopefully Baker will not follow this recommendation (and will add a bike/ped coordinator position at DPW&T).
https://www.thewashcycle.com/2011/03/pg-county-wants-to-remove-bikeped-planners-from-road-review-process.htmloldId.20110317074706623