At 6:30 p.m. tonight (June 30) Baltimore City DOT will hold a meeting to discuss plans for a set of improvements along Guilford Avenue between University Parkway and Mt. Royal Avenue to manage traffic speeds, increase greenery, and improve conditions for bicyclists.
The meeting will be held in the Sherwood Room in Levering Hall on the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood Campus. A map showing Levering Hall can be found at the bottom of this message and the Sherwood Room is just inside on the left from the main entrance. If you're planning to attend, please RSVP at the link below so the City knows how many folks are going to show up (but show up even if you can't RSVP). Bike Boulevards, also known as Neighborhood Greenways, are low-traffic neighborhood streets that are optimized for bicycling, providing direct, attractive routes for bikes and making the streets quieter, prettier, and healthier than busy, car-filled street. Bike boulevards are more welcoming to kids, families and novice cyclists, and attractive for all kinds of cyclists who want to ride on a convenient & comfortable route and provide a wide variety of benefits for pedestrians and neighborhood residents as well. Baltimore's gridded street system is ideal for bike boulevards and Guilford Avenue is a great place to start because the City Public School Dept. HQ already serves to divert through auto (but not bike) traffic off the street and it provides a direct connection to downtown from neighborhoods in north central Baltimore and an alternative to the higher-speed, higher-volume arterials of Calvert, St. Paul, Charles, & Maryland. Guilford is already heavily used by bicyclists for commuting, getting to the four elementary schools located just off Guilford, and just riding around town and the signage and engineering improvements planned will make it more attractive for bicycle riders, pedestrians, and neighborhood residents. I hope you can come to tonight's meeting and will pass this on to friends, neighbors, and other individuals interested in sustainable transportation or the neighborhoods along Guilford. http://bit.ly/9ZqOOf - JHU Homewood Campus PDF Map http://baltimorecommutes.com/bike/bike-boulevards/ - Blog post about bike boulevards <http://www.socializr.com/event/594267009/> http://www.socializr.com/event/594267009/ - RSVP for tonight's meeting Patrick McMahon ............................................................................ ................................... Transportation Chair Greater Baltimore Sierra Club ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ....................................... Baltimore City Sustainability Commission Member & Transportation Working Group Chair ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ....................................... [email protected] 410-599-5123
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