By Ron Cassie
Construction has begun on a dedicated bicycle and pedestrian trail that will connect the Inner Harbor to Penn Station, according to Nate Evans, the bike and pedestrian planner for Baltimore’s Department of Transportation. (For more on Baltimore’s biking culture, see “Shifting Gears,” Jun. ’11 Urbanite.)
The dedicated path will connect the Gwynns Falls Trail at the Inner Harbor to the Jones Falls Trail at Penn Station, separating street traffic by utilizing bike lanes around the Inner Harbor and wide sidewalks along the Jones Falls corridor.
“The ‘trolley lanes’ currently separated from the vehicular traffic with orange, steel bollards will have a landscaped median to better restrict access by motor vehicles,” Evans wrote in an email to Urbanite. “Sections of Fallsway will also have a concrete and belgian-block median to separate bicycle and pedestrian traffic from vehicular traffic.
Funding for the $3.5 million project come from the…
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