Baltimore police responcable for 49 lives lost and 7,686 people injured in 2008

For those of you who missed this line in the previous article Biking to school:
"We must also continue to ask the Baltimore Police Department to live up to their part of the bargain as outlined in the Baltimore Bicycle Master Plan."

I am really not sure why the police continue to be unresponsive or why they think traffic safety is not an issue, in Baltimore 24% of our traffic fatalities are pedestrians or cyclists; Maryland 20.6%; national average 14%. DC's pedestrian fatality rate is15.2/M ours is 17.3/M, National average 14.4/M. (2008 data) Approximately one third of Baltimore's traffic victims are kids (13% of the population.) And we all know how well motorist yield to pedestrians around here, obey speed limits and generally drive safe.
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It's not like we don't have some agencies on board but without the ability to enforce/give warnings for moving violations, I'm not sure how effective of a Street Smart campaign we are going to have. Baltimore Regions 2008 Crash Facts

by B' Spokes

Like most people I live a hectic life and who has the time for much exercise? Thanks to xtracycle now I do. By using my bike for daily activities I can get things done and get an hour plus work out in 15 minutes extra of my time, not a bad deal and beats taking the extra time going to the gym. In case you are still having trouble being motivated; the National Center of Disease Control says that inactivity is the #2 killer in the United States just behind smoking. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/ ) Get out there and start living life! I can carry home a full shopping cart of groceries, car pool two kids or just get lost in the great outdoors camping for a week. Well I got go, another outing this weekend.
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