{"id":87487965,"date":"2007-10-10T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=87487965"},"modified":"2007-10-10T14:12:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T14:12:45","slug":"one-less-car-meeting-with-mdot-sha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=87487965","title":{"rendered":"One Less Car meeting with MDOT\/SHA"},"content":{"rendered":"

From One Less Car:<\/em>
\n
Hello Everyone,<\/p>\n

\nI wanted to give you all a brief synopsis of a meeting that Mark Counselman and
\n I had last Thursday with John Porcari, Secretary of the Maryland
\nDepartment of Transportation, Neil Pedersen, the SHA administrator and Sam
\n Minnitte, the director of planning for MDOT. Our agenda centered on
\nensuring that the state of Maryland have a fully engaged “complete streets”
\n policy where the safety and convenience of all road users (bike\/ped\/
\ntransit\/cars) is accommodated.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe best news was that the Secretary agreed that county transportation engineers
\n need training to ensure that local roads are safe for bikes, peds
\nand transit users. His proposed solution (which we fully agree with) was to
\n make complete streets training a state funding requirement for local
\nDOTs. This means that state funds that go to the counties for road construction
\n would come with a comprehensive complete streets training
\ncomponent. Right now training for bike\/ped\/transit accommodations is lacking in
\n many county DOT offices. This could potentially remedy that
\nproblem. We will definitely be following up with the Secretary to make sure
\n that this becomes a reality\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nSHA Administrator Pedersen suggested increased complete streets training for
\n state engineers. He seems enthusiastic about making this a central
\ncomponent of the engineering staff’s ongoing professional development. Once
\n again, this is good news.\n <\/p>\n

\nThe Administrator was also open to the idea of having bike\/ped “showcase
\n projects” in each county. In other words, making sure that there is at
\nleast one state road in each jurisdiction that exemplifies best complete streets
\n practices. At the very least he would like to begin an inventory of
\ncompleted state projects that were bike\/ped friendly.\n <\/p>\n

\nThere was agreement to get the state bike map online and expanded to include
\n other routes, such as those on the Mid-Maryland bicycle map.\n<\/p>\n

\nThere was also agreement that One Less Car should work together with MDOT on
\n getting the bicycle safety brochure online, and in different
\nlanguages. We also made it clear that we want to work with MDOT to ensure that
\n the state has the best possible bike\/ped safety outreach.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe meeting was only 30 minutes long, so there were a million points we could
\n not get to. Regardless, it was clear that Secretary Porcari,
\nAdministrator Pedersen and Mr. Minnittee fully understand the issues and
\n concerns and were very appreciative of One Less Car’s offer to work with
\nthem in the future. I will be following up with the Secretary and Administrator
\n Pedersen in the coming weeks.\n<\/p>\n

\nRichard Chambers
\n
Executive Director
\n
One Less CaroldId.20071010141245648<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From One Less Car: Hello Everyone, I wanted to give you all a brief synopsis of a meeting that Mark Counselman and I had last Thursday with John Porcari, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation, Neil Pedersen, the SHA administrator and Sam Minnitte, the director of planning for MDOT. Our agenda centered on ensuring … <\/p>\n

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