The Bicycle Symposium is on its way. Sign up to join us!

The 2008 Bicycle Symposium is February 6th, 2008 in the President's Conference Center of the Miller Senate Office Building in Annapolis. Doors open at 8:30 AM. Learn about some of the great bicycle-oriented projects going on around the state, while rubbing elbows with your local representatives. And don't forget - free day-glo bike pins for everybody! Want to be there? Just register here. Remember, the Symposium is free and open to EVERYONE.
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Maryland's new bicycle safety video.

One Less Car is proud to announce that we're the first organization to have the Maryland Department of Transportation's new bicycle safety video, "Competence & Confidence: A Bicycling Guide for Adults", online and fully accessible. MDOT received a lot of input from the bicycling community while putting it together and we think it's a great resource for people who want to be more effective and safer cyclists. It also has some sobering information on our state's relatively high rate of bicycling-related injuries. Take a look by clicking here.

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Ciclovia in Baltimore? It could happen.

If you have been reading our email updates, or have checked out the Ciclovia page on our website you know that One Less Car has been at the forefront of the push to bring South America's coolest street festival to Maryland's biggest city. In case you don't know what it is, Ciclovia is when big cities like Bogota and Guadalajara open up miles upon miles of streets to pedestrians, bicyclists, roller-bladers and all manner of non-motorized traffic every Sunday morning. It's a great way for people to "take back" the streets and see their city from a totally new angle.

Last week One Less Car's Executive Director, Richard Chambers and Ciclovia Coordinator, Carol Silldorf, rode along a possible route for a Baltimore Ciclovia with city transportation officials and members of the Mayor's staff. The potential route would traverse neighborhoods as different as Federal Hill and Collington Square. The city's wonderful waterfront would also be showcased.

Although Mayor Dixon has not yet fully committed to having Ciclovia (or "Sunday Streets" as it is also being called) start this Spring, she has shown great interest in the concept and has invested real time and talent into making this happen.

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Another Bike Improvement sighting

This just in from a Baltimore Spokes Reader: "There are new bike markers all the way up and down Wyman Park Drive in Remington."

The beginnings of the College Town Bicycle Route are budding though not as early as we hoped. When they City first put out a request for bids on this project it got only one bid, which would be illegal to accept so on to round two of getting bids and this time we got a few bids, a contract was awarded but now it is too cold to apply thermoplastic. So we are now on hold for warmer weather. It's moving but it does seem to be always something.
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Change the World. Start at (Baltimore) Home Communities

HGTV and its non-profit partners, Rebuilding Together, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Natural Resources Defense Council, believe home is more than a house with four walls. Home is also our communities, our workplaces, our countries and our world. And family is not just our immediate family, however that family may be defined, but also our broader family with whom we share our workplaces, our communities, our countries and our world. So just as we do in our own homes, we all can play a vital role in helping this large and diverse family to prosper, to play, to thrive

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Envisioning a Baltimore united through one connected park

By Steve Ziger, Baltimore Sun -

Imagine a Baltimore where everyone lived within a few blocks of a park. Where you could walk easily throughout the city in a safe "green network" connecting school playgrounds, tree-lined boulevards, community gardens, college campuses, public golf courses, recreational areas and parks.

As you walked, people would be commuting on bicycle trails or participating in marathons. Children would plant and care for trees as a part of their environmental curriculum. Neighbors would grow their own vegetables. Our extensive canopy of trees would provide shade, filter pollution and help filter rainwater and prevent flooding.

Baltimore would become known as a "city in a park," attracting businesses, residents and visitors. Tax revenues would increase along with property values. Communities would come together. The healthier environment would improve our public health, with cleaner air and water, and lots of great reasons to be outside.

This is the vision of &quot;One Park,&quot; a concept of the Parks and People Foundation (<a href="http://www.parksandpeople.org">www.parksandpeople.org</a>;) to unite our diverse neighborhoods in a network of enhanced and interconnected open spaces. The nature of these connections would vary in each location, with specific designs coming from local communities and stakeholders.

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