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<\/a><\/p>\nCycle Maryland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The state has created a new bike program called Cycle Maryland<\/a>. It looks very encouraging. In keeping with its secrecy in goverment<\/a> policy, the state did this without telling too many people, at least not MoBike. But we\u2019ll take it!<\/p>\n Part of Cycle Maryland is a bikeway \u201cretrofit\u201d program that will fund local projects costing under $100K each. Counties and cities are supposed to request funding for specific projects. However this year the county was given only one week\u2019s notice to come up with projects! As a result we ended up with just signage projects, i.e. signing existing bike routes, mostly streets. I personally suggested more robust improvements (in the 3 days notice I had) including upgrading the Bethesda Trolley Trail by White Flint Metro, providing better bike access to Rockville Metro<\/a> and supporting two-way travel on Woodmont Ave<\/a> to Bethesda Metro and the Capital Crescent Trail. But things were too rushed.<\/p>\n Fortunately the state is requesting another round of projects from counties and cities, to be funded in 2013. They\u2019re accepting project submissions <\/a>from local jurisdictions through May 4th, 2012.<\/p>\n This Gazette article<\/a> describes the funding initiative, but it\u2019s misleading because it states that \u201cbike paths\u201d are going to be built or upgraded when nothing more than signs are being added. Here are the actual<\/em> state-funded projects:<\/p>\n Montgomery Mall to downtown Bethesda route<\/strong> \u2014 Adding signs along a 5.2 mile on-road route connecting Montgomery Mall to Bethesda Metro and the Capital Crescent Trail, with a spur to NIH ($21,000)<\/p>\n Matthew Henson trail to Forest Glen metro<\/strong> \u2014 Adding signs along a 7.4 mile existing route (mostly on-road) connecting Mathew Henson Trail to Wheaton and Forest Glen Metro stations ($33,000)<\/p>\n Silver Spring US 29 local route alternate<\/strong> \u2014 Adding signs along a 2.5 mile route parallel to US 29 (mostly on-road) from New Hampshire Ave to East Randolph Rd ($9,000)<\/p>\n All these signs are part of a comprehensive signed route network for the county, which we need. But we can do a lot better than just that!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
![two-way travel on Woodmont Ave<\/a> to Bethesda Metro and the Capital Crescent Trail. But things were too rushed.<\/p>\nFortunately the state is requesting another round of projects from counties and cities, to be funded in 2013. They\u2019re accepting project submissions <\/a>from local jurisdictions through May 4th, 2012.<\/p>\nThis Gazette article<\/a> describes the funding initiative, but it\u2019s misleading because it states that \u201cbike paths\u201d are going to be built or upgraded when nothing more than signs are being added. Here are the actual<\/em> state-funded projects:<\/p>\n\n\nMontgomery Mall to downtown Bethesda route<\/strong> \u2014 Adding signs along a 5.2 mile on-road route connecting Montgomery Mall to Bethesda Metro and the Capital Crescent Trail, with a spur to NIH ($21,000)<\/p>\nMatthew Henson trail to Forest Glen metro<\/strong> \u2014 Adding signs along a 7.4 mile existing route (mostly on-road) connecting Mathew Henson Trail to Wheaton and Forest Glen Metro stations ($33,000)<\/p>\nSilver Spring US 29 local route alternate<\/strong> \u2014 Adding signs along a 2.5 mile route parallel to US 29 (mostly on-road) from New Hampshire Ave to East Randolph Rd ($9,000)<\/p>\nAll these signs are part of a comprehensive signed route network for the county, which we need. But we can do a lot better than just that!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nhttps:\/\/cyclemoco.com\/2012\/03\/new-maryland-bike-initiative-with-funding\/<\/a>oldId.20120404181629874<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Jack Cochrane, CycleMoCo Cycle Maryland The state has created a new bike program called Cycle Maryland. It looks very encouraging. In keeping with its secrecy in goverment policy, the state did this without telling too many people, at least not MoBike. But we\u2019ll take it! Part of Cycle Maryland is a bikeway \u201cretrofit\u201d program that will fund local … <\/p>\nContinue reading “New Maryland bike initiative, with funding!”<\/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-229025789","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\/229025789","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=229025789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229025789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229025789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229025789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229025789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.internetigloo.com\/mobike\/images\/woodmont_sidewalk2.jpg\"){kind=link}