Bikemore

We need to pass the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act before midnight. Contact your state senator and ask them to get it to a vote ASAP:

Pass the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act on Sine Die!

It's the last day of session, Sine Die. This morning we rallied with transportation and environmental advocacy organizations from across the state demand the Maryland Senate pass the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act (HB 437/ SB 59) before midnight.

Amid improvements to roadways, Baltimoreans say city can do better In 2025 alone, the city sustained a 40% decrease in roadway fatalities (41) from the previous year -- marking the city's lowest number of traffic-related deaths since 2018.

Please join us tonight at 6:00pm at the corner of Orleans Street and Montford Avenue for a vigil in memory of all those we have lost to traffic violence in 2026.

https://www.baltimorefss.org/

On March 12th, 28 year old Daniel Davis was killed riding a scooter just south of Orleans Street on North Collington Avenue when he was hit by the driver of a box truck.

Daniel worked at MyBGE and was a colleague of our board member Kyle Harrer. He loved biking and frequently rode his bike to work.

We are joining Baltimore Families for Safe Streets in honoring Daniel and other victims of traffic violence at a vigil on Tuesday, March 31st at 6pm at the intersection of Orleans Street and North Montford Avenue, where we will demand safer street designs to save lives.

Box trucks are a frequent killer of vulnerable road users. In addition to better designed roads, Bikemore and Baltimore Families for Safe Streets advocate for affordable design improvements to vehicles. Direct vision cab design dramatically improves visibility. Intelligent speed assist limits speeding. Vehicle side skirts and blind spot monitors with pedestrian detection are available as options on many new trucks, and are affordable retrofits to existing vehicles.

Traffic violence is not an accident. It is a systemic public health crisis that we have the power to solve through changes to street and vehicle design.

Please join us to remember Daniel and all those we have lost, and help us fight for a vision of zero deaths on our roadways.

In August, we asked you to share opposition to plans to relocate the Sisson Street Convenience Center to the Jones Falls Valley.

As a result of your advocacy, the Sisson Street Task Force was formed, and Bikemore was asked to join to advise on traffic safety and represent the interests of bicyclists and pedestrians.

In a November task force meeting, Bikemore Executive Director Jed Weeks motioned to remove the Falls Road site from consideration, and the task force unanimously voted in favor of that motion.

While we expect the mayor to accept the recommendations of the task force, this vote was only advisory. And even if the city never planned to relocate to the Falls Road location, there was still a huge risk: the sites are zoned industrial and owned by Potts & Callahan. In theory, nothing could prevent them from selling or leasing the property to another industrial use, including a private waste facility.

Today, Seawall Development announced that they are under contract on 2801 and 2701 Falls Road, both of the active Potts & Callahan industrial sites.

If their purchase is successful, Seawall Development has committed to advocates and neighbors, including Bikemore, Blue Water Baltimore, Friends of the Jones Falls, and the Greater Re*****on Improvement Association that they will prevent industrial uses on these sites, and instead work collaboratively with us to re-imagine both sites to meet the desires of Baltimoreans to see the Jones Falls Valley realized as a world-class linear park, flanked by walkable, mixed use development in Re*****on.

Challenges to protecting these sites remain. The financial viability of this sale is likely predicated on the ability to re-develop the existing Sisson Street Convenience Center, as connectivity between Re*****on and the Jones Falls Valley between the two sites would only be possible through that re-development. The industrial zoning is still in place, and a comprehensive rezoning of both the Falls Road and Sisson Street sites to allow appropriate human scale redevelopment (and restrict uses like big box stores and parking lots from the Sisson Street sites) would likely be necessary.

If the Sisson Street Task Force moves toward Option 2, the phased closure of Sisson Street Convenience Center, Bikemore will advocate for the report to include these recommendations.

If realized, these efforts would take the largest remaining industrial uses in the lower Jones Falls Valley off the table permanently, protect the site from a potential future convenience center, eliminate dumping and runoff concerns from the existing Sisson Street facility, and facilitate a much stronger connection between communities and the Jones Falls Valley.

Seawall Development will be hosting public visioning sessions for Baltimoreans to share what they’d like to see these sites become, and we will share that information as it becomes available.

Protecting the Jones Falls Valley from Future Industrial Uses — Bikemore How we can utilize news of properties under contract to advance our vision for a world-class linear park.

BIKE BUS! BIKE BUS! BIKE BUS!

Bikemore had the privilege in joining the Roland Park Elementary/Middle School Bike Bus with several families around the neighborhood. Parents led, organized, and developed a seamless route to the school from a designated checkpoint on Upland and Roland Ave. The kids rode their own bikes or on their parents’ e-cargo bikes, and the families saved so much time during drop-off by safely riding through the bike lane past traffic! It was fun, engaging, and a great way to start one’s morning with a healthy bit of cardio before class and work. Thanks for having us, Roland Park Bike Bus Fam!

Interested in starting a bike bus or biking to school with your family? Get in touch with our Family Biking Organizer Cora Karim, [email protected], for more information on how to get started!

We're in Annapolis today for the Bike Maryland Symposium, talking to legislators about bills that will improve safety for vulnerable road users and accountability for drivers.

Orleans Street is not a highway—it is our home. 🏘️🛑

For too long, the families of McElderry Park and East Baltimore have paid the price for dangerous street design. Since 2022, we’ve seen too many “accidents” that were actually preventable tragedies.

On Tuesday, March 31, we are standing together to say: No More.

Join Families for Safe Streets Baltimore for a Community Vigil and Call to Action. We are gathering to honor those we’ve lost and to hand our list of engineering asks directly to city leadership.

🗓️ WHEN: Tuesday, March 31 ⏰ TIME: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM 📍 WHERE: 235 N Montford Ave (at Orleans St)

We are demanding a Road Diet, better lighting, and permanent traffic calming. Bring a neighbor. Let’s make our streets safe for everyone. 🕯️

We are happy to announce a call for stories for our second collaboration with Stoop Storytelling: Commuter Chaos. Follow the link in bio to submit. We are looking for stories about your commute, whether on a bike, public transit, in a car, or however you get to work. We will be sharing stories on May 27th, be on the lookout for the ticket link very soon!

People delivering your food, cooking your dinners and pouring your cocktails at restaurants, seeing your newborns at check ups, and operating on your cancer have been biking to work through this storm.

They deserve safety and a place where they aren't getting in the way of frustrated drivers.

Grateful Baltimore City Department of Transportation is getting on top of this. Better late than spring.

Plowed bike lanes?
Plowed bike lanes.

In addition to all the other work we’re doing, we are removing the snow from bike lanes as well.

See any bike lanes or anything else that needs our attention?
Submit a request to 311 and we’ll get on it!