Maryland Awards Over $16M In Grants To Bicycle & Pedestrian Projects

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Governor Larry Hogan connected Monday announced $16.8 cardinal successful grants for bicycle, pedestrian and way projects crossed Maryland. The grants are going to 42 projects.

Hogan said the backing volition assistance support and heighten trails aft an summation successful Marylanders spending clip extracurricular connected trails and bikes during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Over the past twelvemonth and a half, much and much Marylanders person been walking, riding bikes, and utilizing trails for transportation, recreation, and exercise,” said Governor Larry Hogan. “These grants, made imaginable done the national and authorities programs, are helping america heighten prime of beingness and supply further harmless motorcycle and pedestrian opportunities.”

The grants were made imaginable by some authorities and national funding. The bundle has $12.4 cardinal from the national Transportation Alternatives Program, $1 cardinal from the Recreational Trails Program, and $3.4 cardinal successful authorities backing done the Kim Lamphier Bikeways Network Program by the Maryland Department of Transportation.

The grants from the Transportation Alternatives Program are for on- and off-road pedestrian and bicycle facilities, biology mitigation efforts, and projects that are portion of the Safe Routes to School initiative. The awards include:

$1.8 cardinal to the National Park Service to rehabilitate 18 miles of the C&O Canal towpath successful Allegany County;
$1.8 cardinal to retrofit stormwater outfall and conception a watercourse vale restoration task on astir 7,400 feet of Glebe Branch successful the Anne Arundel County’s South River watershed;
$1.5 cardinal to conception a multi-use way astatine the Greenbelt Metro Station successful Prince George’s County that volition link neighborhoods and supply harmless pedestrian and bicycle transportation to commercialized properties, determination parks, and the existing way network, including Indian Creek Trail and Lake Artemisia;
$597,024 to plan 8.9 miles of on-street bikeways and pedestrian crossing improvements connected 15 streets successful Salisbury; and
$160,000 to implicit plan of connectivity upgrades to Beach Elementary School successful Calvert County, including sidewalk connections on MD 261 from Old Bayside Road to Chesapeake Village Boulevard and on Old Bayside Road from MD 261 to F Street successful Chesapeake Beach.

The Recreational Trails Program funded these projects:

$120,000 to conception a .75-mile multiuse crushed chromatic way astatine Washington County Regional Park successful Washington County;
$83,491 to conception 2,800 feet of the caller Cox Creek Community Trail successful the Cox Creek Forested Conservation Easement Area successful Anne Arundel County;
$63,500 to conception a two-mile earthy aboveground way connecting the Hollofield country of Patapsco Valley State Park to Sylvan Lane successful Ellicott City, Howard County, including a trailhead kiosk and way markers; and
$55,860 to reconstruct 2,095 feet of way betwixt the Catoctin Furnace ruins and the Manor Area of Cunningham Falls State Park successful Frederick County.

The Kim Lamphier Bikeways Network Program by the Maryland Department of Transportation awarded backing to these projects:

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$326,000 to conception cardinal connections successful the bicycle networks of Baltimore City;
$224,000 to plan an hold and widening of Poplar Trail successful the Annapolis country of Anne Arundel County;
$120,000 to measure shared-use paths successful Baltimore County betwixt the Torrey C. Brown (Northern Central Railroad) Trail and the Jones Falls Trail;
$100,000 for motorcycle lanes and postulation calming measures on West Road successful Salisbury;
$80,625 to instal motorcycle racks connected Prince George’s County transit vehicles;
$54,080 for bicycle and shared scooter parking hubs successful College Park;
$1,472 for motorcycle repair stations on with the Ma & Pa Trail successful Harford County; and
Various amounts to survey and plan bicycle connections successful Anne Arundel County, Montgomery County, the Town of Luke successful Allegany County, the City of Frederick successful Frederick County, and the Town of LaPlata successful Charles County;

“Bicycle and pedestrian facilities are cardinal components of Maryland’s broad, multimodal proscription strategy,” MDOT Secretary Greg Slater said. “Through these authorities and national assistance programs, we’re delivering projects that sphere and heighten Maryland’s cultural, historical, and biology attributes and marque them harmless and accessible for everyone.”