Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Judge Protects Bike Lane With Restraining Order

An increasingly unusual situation in Baltimore has led to a dubious milestone: A circuit court judge has issued a restraining order to stop a U.S. city from removing a new protected bike lane.
It's only the latest in a string of odd events, beginning with the city's decision to scrap an already-completed public process and tear out a four-week-old post-protected bike lane under construction on Potomac Street. From Streetsblog USA:
The city has already spent $775,000 designing and installing the bike lane, which had been included in city planning documents for the past five years. The project received federal funds distributed by the state and met design guidelines set by the Federal Highway Administration and the National Association of City Transportation Officials.
The local city councilperson and some neighbors are in favor of the bike lane, but other neighbors aren't — and after construction began, the neighbors who don't like the plan persuaded the mayor to reverse the public process on the grounds that the International Fire Code requires streets to have 20 feet of clearance.
Read the rest of the story here.

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