Baltimore Partners with PA on Sustainable Transportation TIGER 3 Project

The Pennsylvania Environmental Council led a consortium of municipalities in appying for a USDOT TIGER 3 grant titled The Mid-Atlantic Region’s “Sustainable Transportation for Livable Cities.” This project, submitted on behalf of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, addresses improvements in the City Of Baltimore, MD;  the City of Newark, NJ; and Camden County, NJ.  The package requests approximately $42 million in federal support for 5 projects in PA, 3 in NJ, and a bucket of projects for Baltimore, MD with a total project cost of a little over $60 million.  Aspects of the “Sustainable Transportation” project include:

• Broad Street Complete Street in Camden, NJ
• Market Street & JFK Complete Streets and Cycletrack in Philadelphia, PA
• Bensalem State Road Complete Street and Trail in Bucks County, PA
• Manayunk Bridge Trail in Lower Merion Township, PA and
• Bicycle Enhancement Projects in Baltimore, MD

The Baltimore project requests:

• Start-up funding for Charm City Bike Share
• Construction of the Downtown Bicycle Network – cycletracks and bike lanes
  across the city center
• Construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Trail – connecting the Jones Falls
  and Gwynns Falls Trails along MLK Blvd
• Bicycle Parking Enhancement at transit centers and other downtown area

Special thanks to Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, Elijah Cummings and Senator Ben Cardin for their support of this project. 

The application is available online for review