Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Maryland

Seneca Creek – one of the unspoiled natural areas threatened by the proposed M-83 highway.
Photo: G. Edward Johnson

Highway Boondoggles, Part I: Maryland’s Misguided Highway Extension

By James Horrox, Bryn Huxley-Reicher and Matthew Casale | Sep 13, 2022 | No Comments

Here's the first installment of this year's "Highway Boondoggles" series — we'll start in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Image description: Sarah and Dan Langenkamp pose with their two young sons at a swimming pool. Photo: GoFundMe

‘We’re Luring Bicyclists To Their Deaths’: Husband of Diplomat Killed While Cycling Turns Anguish Into Advocacy

By Kea Wilson | Sep 1, 2022 | No Comments

The husband of a U.S. diplomat who survived an evacuation from war-torn Ukraine only to be killed in a car crash as she biked on a Maryland road is raising money to stop other families from having to endure similar tragedies — and urging the public to reckon with an epidemic of traffic violence that's left his children without a mother.

An intersection in Baltimore. Image: Beyond DC, CC

Why Transit Planners Need to Talk About Public Health

By Kea Wilson | Sep 22, 2021 | No Comments

Baltimore is failing to deliver quality transit to the predominantly low-income neighborhoods of color that need them most — and a new analysis could serve as template for other cities committed to mobility justice, too.

A street in North Baltimore, Md. with a badly damaged sidewalk. A series of orange construction barrels mark an uneven segment of alleyway pavement between two curb cuts that is filled with dried mud and would likely be impassible to many people using assistive devices. Parking lots and brick row homes stand in the background. Image: Max Pixel, CC

Why City Sidewalks Still Miss the ADA Mark

By Kea Wilson | Jul 28, 2021 | No Comments

People with mobility challenges in Baltimore, Md. are celebrating the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act this week by filing a lawsuit demanding their city actually follow the historic law — and communities across the country could be the target of similar lawsuits soon.

The segment of Georgia Avenue (MD-97) where Claire Weissmeyer Grossmann was killed. Five years earlier, her husband, Robert Grossmann, was killed on an equally wide segment of the same road just two blocks away. Photo: Google

Couple Dies on Same Road Five Years Apart

By Kea Wilson | May 12, 2021 | No Comments

The death raises questions about why even Vision Zero cities so often fail to adequately redesign streets that repeatedly prove fatal to walkers.

This Maryland highway is wide enough already — and expanding it even more would only exacerbate the region's problems. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Opinion: Hogan Wrong on Highway Expansion

By Eyal Li | Feb 15, 2021 | No Comments

It is time for Maryland to shed obsolete highway-focused traffic solutions, and pursue alternative strategies that give residents more, and cleaner, choices for how to get around.

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