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MCDOT outlines Bicycle & Pedestrian Priority Areas plan, corrects online map to show 1,042 completed improvements
Summary
Montgomery County DOT said its Purple Line BIPA program has completed 1,042 of 3,806 recommended improvements (about 27%), corrected an online GIS map error, and outlined funded and planned bikeway/sidewalk projects including a $7 million Flower Avenue separated bike lane project.
Joe Mogas, chief of the Division of Transportation Engineering at the Montgomery County Department of Transportation, presented the Purple Line Bicycle and Pedestrian Priority Areas (BIPA) program and said the 2021 BIPA study identified 3,806 deficiencies to be addressed around stations. He told the committee the online GIS map had an error that undercounted completed projects and that the correct completed total is "actually 1,042," with 524 curb ramps and 498 sidewalk upgrades, placing BIPA about 27% complete.
Mogas explained the BIPA implementation framework: short-term improvements (1'2 years) that require minimal design and…
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