Another Baltimore bike story. Almost too many to count, this week.
Officials have reached an agreement with bike groups to formalize mountain bike riding around the Loch Raven Reservoir. (The land is in Baltimore County, but the City operates the reservoir and the water system for both jurisdictions.) People have been riding on off-road trails there, but were not authorized to do so. The city claimed that the riding was contributing to erosion and negative effects on water quality at the reservoir. Some areas will be opened up to legal off-road riding while the bike groups will help to close off unauthorized trails and maintain the new legal trails.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bike-friendly-baltimore-20150325-story.html#page=1
The article also mentions the planned cycletracks (bikeways) on Maryland Ave. and Mount Royal Ave. A buffered bike lane is also being added on the Roland Ave. where Thomas Palermo was killed while riding his bike, on Dec. 27. Perhaps a lot of this momentum is the result of Palermo’s death, although some of these projects were being planned already.
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