Old 08-23-08, 01:52 AM
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Allister
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The problems, county planners say, started in 2004, when Maryland highway officials conducting a fast-tracked environmental study of the connector dropped plans for an off-road bike path. At the time, highway officials were facing a federal review of the connector proposal, which had been stymied for decades because of environmental concerns. Highway officials said they cut the bike trail because they needed to curb costs and reduce the project's environmental "footprint."
Looks like they took all the 'footprint' they could get and used it for car lanes. Bit hard to now justify increasing the footprint again.

Funny how they'll do whatever it takes to get a road through, but grab any excuse to ditch bike space. In this case they not only stuffed it up for bikes from the start, but stuffed it up for the foreseeable future.
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