{"id":193141310,"date":"2011-02-14T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T10:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193141310"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T10:21:50","slug":"first-bicycle-pedestrian-priority-area-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193141310","title":{"rendered":"First Bicycle-Pedestrian Priority Area in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since becoming law in 2000 the White Flint Sector Plan becomes the State\u2019s first Bicycle-Pedestrian Priority Area (BPPA). From the state code a \u201cBicycle and pedestrian priority area\u201d is a geographical area where the enhancement of bicycle and pedestrian traffic is a priority.<br \/>\nCongratulations to White Flint but still I wounder what&#8217;s going on with the rest of the State, one BPPA every 11 years is wrong. This is one of the duties of our Director of Bicycle and Pedestrian Access.  Again from state code &quot;After consultation with political subdivisions in the State, identifies bicycle-pedestrian priority areas to facilitate the targeting of available funds to those areas of the State most in need.&quot;<br \/>\nIf this is indeed the mechanism that directs &quot;the money the State spends over and above Transportation Enhancements&quot; IMHO why don&#8217;t all (most) local bike master plans also get the BPPA designation? Why does Montgomery County with the lowest bike\/ped fatality rates then the other &quot;big 5&quot; counties in the State not to mention the richest county in the State get the &quot;most in need&quot; BPPA designation? Something does not seem right here.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2011\/02\/monday-morning-commute-bppa-means-love.html\">https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2011\/02\/monday-morning-commute-bppa-means-love.html<\/a><br \/>\nMy appeal to get money where it is needed: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20100618153759192\">https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20100618153759192<\/a>oldId.20110214102150458<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since becoming law in 2000 the White Flint Sector Plan becomes the State\u2019s first Bicycle-Pedestrian Priority Area (BPPA). From the state code a \u201cBicycle and pedestrian priority area\u201d is a geographical area where the enhancement of bicycle and pedestrian traffic is a priority. Congratulations to White Flint but still I wounder what&#8217;s going on with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193141310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Bicycle-Pedestrian Priority Area in Maryland&#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-193141310","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\/193141310","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=193141310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193141310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193141310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193141310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193141310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}