{"id":217294071,"date":"2011-11-20T23:27:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T23:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217294071"},"modified":"2011-11-20T23:27:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T23:27:51","slug":"plan-proposes-34-miles-of-bicycle-routes-around-annapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217294071","title":{"rendered":"Plan proposes 34 miles of bicycle routes around Annapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Historically Maryland gets $1 million a year just for trails like this (Recreational Trail Program) but sadly MDOT&#8217;s made up policy says no we don&#8217;t want to fund trails like this and we don&#8217;t want to put out any public accounting on how we spend a million bucks. Ref <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20100430170721104\">https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20100430170721104<\/a> ]<br \/>\n********************************************************************************<br \/>\nBy Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun<br \/>\nAn off-street bike trail links Truxton Park in Annapolis to the Bates Sports Complex. A bicycle lane runs along Edgewood Road between the Back Creek Nature Park and Bay Ridge Road. A snippet of shared bicycle-motor vehicle lane cuts the angle from Bladen Street to Northwest Street.<br \/>\nThere are six miles of trails in the city, but few connections between them, and almost no markers to point out routes to popular destinations.<br \/>\nThe city council is considering a plan to create a network of 34 miles of marked bicycle routes: a mix of bike lanes on city streets, shared-use lanes for drivers and cyclists, and off-road paths.<br \/>\nIn addition to routes that avoid the busiest sections of major roadways, said Iain Banks, the city&#8217;s personal transportation and parking specialist, the plan also includes safety and educational programs, promotion of bicycling, links to other forms of transportation and bicycle parking.<br \/>\nBicyclists praised the plan, an 86-page document that lays out a long-term strategy, and officials say the point is to create an environment that allows bicycles to be used safely for transportation and recreation.<br \/>\nBut the larger issue may be whether the cash-strapped city will be able to implement it. The price for turning the plan into reality is $2 million in the first five years, with a total of $3.4 million over a decade.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2011-11-19\/news\/bs-md-ar-bicycle-plan-20111117_1_bicycle-master-plan-bicycle-routes-bicycle-lane\">https:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2011-11-19\/news\/bs-md-ar-bicycle-plan-20111117_1_bicycle-master-plan-bicycle-routes-bicycle-lane<\/a>oldId.20111120232751431<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Historically Maryland gets $1 million a year just for trails like this (Recreational Trail Program) but sadly MDOT&#8217;s made up policy says no we don&#8217;t want to fund trails like this and we don&#8217;t want to put out any public accounting on how we spend a million bucks. Ref https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20100430170721104 ] ******************************************************************************** By &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=217294071\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plan proposes 34 miles of bicycle routes around Annapolis&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217294071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-paths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217294071","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=217294071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217294071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217294071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217294071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217294071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}