{"id":213477109,"date":"2011-10-07T19:11:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=213477109"},"modified":"2011-10-07T19:11:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:11:49","slug":"how-delaware-made-statewide-bike-funding-history-with-cmaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=213477109","title":{"rendered":"How Delaware made statewide bike funding history with CMAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again filed under &quot;News you will not see in Maryland.&quot; Like DE used to be, Baltimore Metro has not spent a dime of CMAQ on bike projects. Maryland gets about $49 million of CMAQ a year or two years of CMAQ could pay for what we plan to spend over 6 years with no local match required.<br \/>\nInfo on TE and CMAQ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/resources\/reports\/pdfs\/rescissions_analsyis_te+cmaq_8.13.10.pdf\">https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/resources\/reports\/pdfs\/rescissions_analsyis_te+cmaq_8.13.10.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nOur 6 year CTP: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdot.maryland.gov\/Planning\/CTP\/CTP_Documents\/Draft_CTP\/8_BikePed.pdf\">https:\/\/www.mdot.maryland.gov\/Planning\/CTP\/CTP_Documents\/Draft_CTP\/8_BikePed.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nRead and understand this, no one else here does: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwjf.org\/files\/research\/20091112mccannexecutivesummary.pdf\">https:\/\/www.rwjf.org\/files\/research\/20091112mccannexecutivesummary.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n************************************************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nfrom Bikeleague.org Blog by Darren<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBy tapping into Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) improvement funds for bicycling projects \u2013 the first time ever in Delaware \u2013 Bike Delaware and its allies have opened the door for the future funding of bicycling projects that give people options to substitute their cars trips with enjoyable, healthy, non-polluting, non-traffic-clogging bike trips.<\/p>\n<p>Every year Delaware spends about $12 million in federal CMAQ dollars. \u201cBut in the 20 year history of the CMAQ program, not one dime has ever been used for bicycling, greenways or trails in Delaware,\u201d wrote Bike Delaware Executive Director James Wilson, \u201cUntil now. We have broken a 20 year drought and also set an immensely hopeful precedent for the future.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/delaware_cmaq\/\">https:\/\/www.bikeleague.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/delaware_cmaq\/<\/a>oldId.20111007191149227<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again filed under &quot;News you will not see in Maryland.&quot; Like DE used to be, Baltimore Metro has not spent a dime of CMAQ on bike projects. Maryland gets about $49 million of CMAQ a year or two years of CMAQ could pay for what we plan to spend over 6 years with no local &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=213477109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Delaware made statewide bike funding history with CMAQ&#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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213477109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-will-not-see-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213477109","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=213477109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213477109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213477109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213477109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213477109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}