Baltimore County Projects “Shovel Ready” but no bike projects :(

Smith Outlines $140 Million Infrastructure Request NONE of which are bike ped related. While its 2005 bicycle access plan gathers dust and while 22% of the County's traffic fatalities involve a pedestrian or bicyclists (national avg 13%) alleyways get attention while we don't. (48% of Baltimore County's bike crashes and 23% of pedestrian crashes involve kids 5-15 (kids represent 12.3% of the County population.)

<a href="http://resources.baltimorecountymd.gov/Documents/News/0901releases/infrastructure0109.pdf">http://resources.baltimorecountymd.gov/Documents/News/0901releases/infrastructure0109.pdf</a>;

Data from MHSO, 2006 data