According to a recent press release:
The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced $20,395,834 in grants to support improvements for bicycle and pedestrian safety and connectivity across the state.
The money comes from federal Transportation Alternatives and Recreational Trails Programs and the state's Maryland Bikeways Program.
A lot of the funding is coming to the DC area
A project to link the WB&A Trail in Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties will receive $4.7 million from the Transportation Alternatives Program. The project will link the WB&A Trail in Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties with a bridge over the Patuxent River. The 700-foot bicycle and pedestrian bridge will complete a key missing link in the WB&A Trail, which was built on the abandoned railroad corridor of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway. Once constructed, bicyclists and other trail users will be able to travel more safely than sharing the roadways with motorized vehicles on MD 450, MD 3 and MD 175. The WB&A Trail is a component of the East Coast Greenway and the American Discovery Trail, which are national trail systems running from Maine to Florida and Delaware to California, respectively. This project is the result of an inter-jurisdictional planning and design team with broad public interest and support.
Prince George’s County will launch phases 1 and 1A of a 5-phase effort to deliver bikeshare to Prince George’s County, connecting with bikeshare systems in the region. A Maryland Bikeways Program award of $188,765 will go toward phase 1A, which includes installing four bikeshare stations in the National Harbor area. Phase 1, which is construction, was awarded $737,362.50 from the Transportation Alternatives Program. In Montgomery County, a $269,834 Maryland Bikeways Program award will be used to expand the Bethesda Trolley Trail Bikeshare network in Bethesda to Grosvenor Metro Station.
Other projects in the DC area include:
- Install 4 bikeshare stations along the Bethesda Trolley Trail and at Grosvenor Metro station, connecting to the bikeshare network in Bethesda ($269,834). The award will fund final design, purchase and installation of the stations that will connect existing bikeshare in Bethesda with new grant-funded stations to be installed in White Flint and Twinbrook in the spring of 2018.
- Feasibility study and 30% Design of bicycle facilities on Hanover Parkway in Greenbelt between Spellman Overpass and Greenbrook Dr., and traversing the Greenbelt Road (MD193) intersection ($50,000)
- 60% Design of a planned bikeway on New Hampshire Ave. (MD650) in Takoma Park between Auburn Ave. and Holton Ln., enhancing connections between the Ethan Allen Gateway, the Sligo Creek Stream Valley Trail, and the Takoma/Langley Crossroads area ($240,000)
- Rewatering the C&O Canal; construction ($2,450,000) and Towpath Rehabilitation; construction ($1,000,000)
- Central Avenue Connector Trail (Phase 1-Addision Road); design (640,000)
- Hollywood Road Sidewalk Design in College Park - Safe Routes to School (SRTS); design ($43,200)
- Takoma Park Improvements; Safe Routes to School (SRTS); construction ($160,000)
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