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Join the Ulman Foundation exploring Maryland’s beautiful coastal region. Three distances all starting and finishing on the waterfront harbor.

Join WABA, Montgomery County Families for Safe Streets and the Action Committee For Transit to bike, walk & roll in support of the Old Georgetown Rd safety improvements

Streets that don’t kill people are more important than streets that move cars quickly. Period. Since 2019, two teenagers (Jacob Cassell and Enzo Alvarenga) have died biking on the sidewalks of MD-187/Old Georgetown Road. This fall, residents, advocates (including WABA), the victims’ families, state and county lawmakers called on SHA to make immediate changes to […]

We are deeply grateful to Dan Langenkamp for his courageous leadership in a time of profound tragedy, and to everyone that donated to his GoFundMe campaign, participated in the Ride for Life, and supported the Langenkamp family. 

Speak up in support of SHA’s plan for protected bike lanes and traffic calming on Old Georgetown Road.

Share feedback on the draft Carole Highlands Safe Mobility Study by December 2nd.

A workshop on effectively pushing for safe streets and better bicycling in Montgomery County from Nov 2, 2022

Prince George’s County’s Planning Department wants your feedback on how best to improve safe walking, biking, and transportation equity.

Bike Maryland (“BikeMD”)  and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (“WABA”) are pleased to announce a new collaborative partnership to further strengthen ties between the two groups.  The following are a few of the selected items under a memorandum of understanding both groups signed on August 28, 2022: WABA will provide staff level and volunteer support […]

This summer, we hope you had the opportunity to ride and enjoy recently completed protected bike lane and trail projects throughout the region!

NPS wants to give Beach drive back to cars for most of the year.

After two blissful years without them, the National Park Service announced that it intends to welcome commuter car traffic back to Upper Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park.

WABA celebrated the groundbreaking for the final piece of the Trolley Trail in Hyattsville.

Share your thoughts on Montgomery County’s first protected bike lane in downtown Wheaton in a quick survey.

Use the form below to email the Parks Department, Councilmember Friedson whose district encompasses the Parkway, and the at-large Councilmembers.

The 2022 session was marked by the passage of a few bills that made substantive progress to make alternatives to cars more available to all of us. 

Share your feedback on the Grove Street traffic calming plan so far with MCDOT in this survey.

Despite all collected data showing the pilot protected bike lanes were a huge success on University Boulevard, MDOT SHA announced that they will not be coming back.

Please thank the Council for supporting  WABA’s Equitable Investment Equitable Investment in Montgomery’s Bike Network Proposal and ask for their help keeping the $10.7m in the final Budget.

How could the Southern Avenue Metro Station be more accessible by foot or bike?

What is your vision for transforming Greenbelt Road (MD-193) near Rhode Island Ave? Drop your ideas in the interactive map by March 31.

You can do your part to support this proposal by sending an email to all of the Council!

It’s been a cold month so far, but our advocates continue to heat things up! Getting new protected bike lanes approved and gearing up for this year’s election cycle, things have been busy. We’ve got a lot planned to keep you in the loop, so read on to learn about some of the developments and victories that closed out last year and opened this one. 

Learn all about WABA’s groundbreaking proposal to build bikeable/walkable networks in Wheaton, White Oak, Langley Park and downtown Silver Spring.

Montgomery County Executive Transportation Forum on Transportation Issues

2021 set a powerful precedent of what we can win with your support and the resources we need. Here’s some of what we accomplished together this year, across the region.

The new American Legion Bridge Trail needs to connect to the C&O Towpath.

now that the pilot period is over, SHA intends to remove the project on November 14, 2021. We need to act now to insist that SHA keep the protected bike lanes in place permanently!

MD SHA is wants your input on bike/ped improvements to Indian Head Highway south of I-495 in Prince George’s County.

Tell the Maryland State Highway Administration not to remove this protected bike lane.