Hogan Administration Announces $1M In Grants Geared Towards Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety

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GLEN BURNIE, Md. (WJZ) — The Hogan Administration announced astir $1 cardinal successful assistance wealth for 30 organizations and instrumentality enforcement agencies to assistance with pedestrian and bicycle safety.

“As we proceed our committedness to improving infrastructure and mobility crossed the state, it is imperative that we besides beforehand information connected our roadways for each users,” said Governor Larry Hogan. “These grants volition supply organizations and instrumentality enforcement agencies with the resources and backing they request to support our astir susceptible travelers.”

The assistance wealth volition beryllium dispersed by the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration Highway Safety Office. It is portion of the state’s absorption to forestall car crashes and assistance destruct roadway fatalities.

“MDOT is committed to providing Marylanders with a safe, reliable and accessible roadway web for each users, whether they question by car, bus, rail, bicycle oregon connected foot,” MDOT Secretary Gregory Slater said. “Any wounded oregon decease is unacceptable, and these grants volition proceed our enactment with communities and instrumentality enforcement partners to support residents, commuters and visitors crossed the state.”

Last year, 573 radical were killed connected Maryland Roadways — 138 were pedestrians and 15 were bicyclists.

“We each person the work to stock the roadworthy truthful we tin each get to our destination safely,” said MDOT MVA Administrator Chrissy Nizer, who besides serves arsenic Governor Hogan’s Highway Safety Representative. “By buckling your spot loop each clip you are successful a vehicle, putting your telephone down, pursuing the velocity limit, driving sober and looking doubly for pedestrians, you could prevention a life.”

Below is simply a breakdown of the road information assistance amounts:

Anne Arundel County Police Department $9,960.00
Baltimore City Department of Transportation $30,000.00
Baltimore City Police Department $3,000.00
Baltimore County Police Department $37,084.00
Baltimore Metropolitan Council $141,970.20
Bel Air Police Department $2,000.00
Bowie Police Department $2,000.00
Calvert County Sheriff’s Office $3,000.00
Carroll County Sheriff’s Office $2,500.00
Cecil County Sheriff’s Office $3,500.00
Charles County Sheriff’s Office $10,000.00
Children’s Village of Washington County $4,000.00
City of Hyattsville Police Department $1,500.00
Greenbelt Police Department $2,000.00
Hagerstown Police Department $500.00
Havre de Grace Police Department $2,000.00
Laurel Police Department $1,000.00
Maryland Capitol Police $999.90
Maryland Highway Safety Office $405,000.00
Maryland Institute College of Art $166,095.60
Maryland Institute for EMS Systems $29,116.40
Maryland State Police – Statewide $13,000.00
Ocean City Police Department $14,916.00
Perryville Police Department $1,406.79
Prince George’s County – Department of Public Works and Transportation $10,059.30
Prince George’s County Police Department $20,000.00
Princess Anne Police Department $2,979.90
Riverdale Park Police Department $1,000.00
Town of La Plata Police Department $1,000.00
University of Maryland Department of Public Safety $2,000.00
Total: $923,588.09