I saw the article about green paint in the buffer space. Visibility is great, but are these lanes actually protected, or just divided? By that I mean do they have bollards or some other obstacle physically preventing cars from entering the bike lane?

^(Also, yeesh, Baltimore DOT has its own Reddit account? You guys have more social media presence in one finger than half of Maryland's state-level agencies have in the whole agency. I'm kinda jealous.)

Combination of curb separated, plastic bollards, and parked cars if I remember correctly.

Edit to clarify: “Plastic bollards” read: flexposts

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They’re even on Discord, and are in a few servers! Props to them for their social media presence.

Awesome!

this is a dreamscape. Biking around the city in the time between the bike race and reopening to traffic was amazing. We have such a flat and well populated city.

Glad the contractors got it done. Apparently it was a spaghetti of pipes underneath the asphalt. Pipes dating back hundreds of years.

Lol they also have discord

Let's keep that momentum going and get even more done this year!

They do zero upkeep. Look at the bike lanes on north ave. It’s a maze of broken trash. The 28th st bridge barrier has been hit multiple times. Zero effort has been put into fixing em. In 5 years , without maintenance, our bike lanes will be temp parking or debris fields.

> We have such a flat

Baltimore is considerably less flat than basically every other city on the east cost.

I mean specifically the central area. Gets pretty punchy away from the harbor.

So the city's Bike Master Plan said the protected Central Avenue bike lane should stop at Baltimore Street and not connect to the majority Black neighborhoods to the north? Not sure why it shouldn't at least connect to the Monument Street bike lane, which is where everything starts to become residential again.

I don’t know if that bridge just east of Howard is even passable any more

I rode it a year or two ago and just in that time it’s gotten way worse

The Gwynns Falls Trail should be the crown jewel of the city's biking infrastructure, but it's extremely neglected.

Baltimore is like half a bowl, with the harbor being the pit. All the way north is climbing gentle rolling hills. But you also have... Butchers Hill, Brewers Hill, Bolton Hill, Fed. Hill, Cherry Hill, Druid Hill....

And Cathedral Hill (which is basically the hill the Basilica is on and it is a bitch if you're going up to the library, Streets Market, or... The Basilica 😂).

I agree. But I hope they do some sort of traffic calming at Central and Fayatte and Central and Orleans because that is very stroady, and all I ever see is people booking it towards Hopkins/the Calvert Street overpass on Orleans or to President/to Hopkins on Fayette.

The stretch between Fayette and Orleans was much less of a highway when Sojourner Douglas College's main campus was active (the college shut down 10 years ago, and then burned multiple times, but that's another issue.) Getting that building redeveloped is the real key to slowing traffic down - the block would be a destination, not a thruway.

The second half of the installation bringing it to Monument is occurring this spring. They ran out of paving and striping season to do that part this fall.

Thanks. That makes more sense. The article cited by OP indicated the project was complete stopping at Baltimore Street.

The article is terrible, almost everything reported in it is wrong (the bike lane network plan was actually supposed to be completed this year, and is from 2017, for example). There's no updated or new plan since that one had basically zero progress.