{"id":190541325,"date":"2011-01-15T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T08:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190541325"},"modified":"2011-01-15T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T08:08:45","slug":"btag-meeting-next-friday-january-21-830-am-in-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190541325","title":{"rendered":"BTAG Meeting Next Friday, January 21, 8:30 AM in Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Prince George&#8217;s County&#8217;s BTAG (Bicycle and Trails Advisory Group) is comprised of citizens and government officials who want to promote bicycling in Prince George&#8217;s County and to improve the conditions for people riding bicycles in the county. Anyone is welcome to attend and participate in the quarterly BTAG meetings. The January Quarterly Meeting of BTAG is scheduled for Friday, January 21 from 8:30 AM &#8211; 10:30 AM at the Bowie Senior Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I encourage anyone interested in bicycling in Prince George&#8217;s County to attend the meeting.&nbsp;We will be meeting in the Ceramics Room in the Bowie Senior Center. The Senior Center is located along Health Center Drive near the Bowie Town Center. The senior center is the second building on the left after you turn onto Health Center Drive from Northview Drive.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Topics submitted so far for the agenda include:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;\">\n<li>The cycle track concept along US 1 (see note below)<\/li>\n<li>The Bowie Heritage Trail&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The Potomac Heritage Trail On-Road Bicycle Route Signage Plan&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The Dinosaur Trail proposal in northern Prince George &#8216; s County&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Anacostia River Trail Update&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Piscataway Creek MOU&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Star Spangled Banner Trail (Croom Road corridor and Cheverly to Bladensburg)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The 2011 Maryland Bicycle and Pedestrian Symposium in Annapolis&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Please contact&nbsp;Fred Shaffer&nbsp;via e-mail or at 301-952-3661 if you have any additional agenda items, questions or would like to follow-up regarding a specific issue.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Fred Shaffer<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Planning Department, M-NCPPC&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span class=\"yiv299677551Object\" id=\"yiv299677551OBJ_PREFIX_DWT290\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;\">Fred.shaffer@ppd.mncppc.org<\/span>&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">301-952-3661&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Note on Cycle Track along US 1:&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: serif;\">Councilmember Olson will probably be at the meeting and he is hoping for support for the cycle track concept on US 1,&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: serif;\">a cycleway along US 1 that would be separated from motor traffic<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: serif;\">. &nbsp;There will be a brief presentation on the proposal which is included in the new US 1 Sector Plan. SHA has written a fairly strongly worded memo against the concept.&nbsp; But, the hope is that if enough cyclists support the idea, SHA&nbsp; might reconsider. &nbsp;The cycle track&nbsp;it is an extremely long-term proposal and the Sector Plan still supports bike lanes in the short and mid-terms.&nbsp; However, due to the 1) vehicular speeds, 2) traffic volume, and 3) the amount of truck traffic on US 1, the plan supports a separate, dedicated facility for cyclists as part of the long-term vision.&nbsp; Also, it is hoped that this type of protected, dedicated facility will encourage more people to make some trips by bicycle.&nbsp; By providing a facility that people feel comfortable on will encourage more people to make trips in the corridor by bike.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Directions from the Capital Beltway to the BTAG meeting:&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Take US 50 East&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">After approximately 7 or 8 miles, take MD 197 south.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Turn right at the first light ( just past the pedestrian bridge) for Northview Drive&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">After less than \u00bc mile on Northview Drive, turn right at the first light for Health Center Drive.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The Bowie Senior Center is the second building on the left ( 14900 Health Center Drive ) .&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The Ceramics Room is located past the front desk along the hallway to the right.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>[B&#8217; Spokes: While I have not seen the cycle track design above I will put in a cautionary bit of info:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sidepath.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\nMaryland&#8217;s over stress on off-road encourages the worst of off-road facilities (bottom half) over and above more appropriate on-road facilities. And even with the best of paths (top half) most MD paths do not allow for comfortable biking from home to the trail (Per NHTSA survey 89% of bike trips begin at a residence and only 7% at a recreational site), nor do paths generally allow comfortable biking from the trail to work or grocery stories, such an idea is not even in the works. We need a more workable solution then what&#8217;s being offered and more verity in the offering of bike facilities at not only the state level but the local level as well.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardcmoeur.com\/docs\/bikepres.pdf\">Bicycle Facility Design by Richard C. Moeur, P.E., L.C.I.<\/a>]<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/cpabc\/\">https:\/\/sports.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/cpabc\/<\/a>oldId.20110115080845582<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince George&#8217;s County&#8217;s BTAG (Bicycle and Trails Advisory Group) is comprised of citizens and government officials who want to promote bicycling in Prince George&#8217;s County and to improve the conditions for people riding bicycles in the county. Anyone is welcome to attend and participate in the quarterly BTAG meetings. The January Quarterly Meeting of BTAG &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190541325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BTAG Meeting Next Friday, January 21, 8:30 AM in Bowie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190541325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190541325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190541325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190541325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190541325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190541325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190541325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}