When Baltimore’s Department of Transportation asked the public to weigh in on five options for a redesign of the much-toiled-over Roland Avenue cycle track, it created a survey and said it would announce the winning choice by July 19.
Instead, the agency said that day it had delayed its decision without picking from the five blueprints. “After careful review of all comments” from the public, it would instead hire a consultant “to work with the community to find the best solution for the project,” said the announcement on DOT’s website.
But data from the public survey suggests that careful review skipped an obvious finding: 62 percent of respondents, or 469 people, said they preferred “Option 1?—also DOT’s declared “preferred” option back in June—to eliminate a lane of traffic on the two-lane road, expand the existing parking lane and retain the curbside protected bike lane.
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