BERLIN – The town will continue to pursue plans for a bike path along the railroad tracks through Berlin.
Members of the Berlin Town Council this week agreed they wanted to continue seeking funding through the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) Bikeways program to build a path in the right-of-way along the railroad tracks. While the Bikeways program would pay for the bulk of the project, the town would be responsible for 25% of the cost.
“Tonight this was put on as a discussion item so you’re aware in your budget talks this is coming,” Planning Director Dave Engelhart said.
Engelhart told the council the town had been working on the bike path project for several years. Berlin initially received grant funding from the Bikeways program for design services in 2017. At that time Davis, Bowen and Friedel designed a 14-foot path with landscaped buffers to go within the easterly portion of the Maryland Delaware Railroad’s right-of-way through town. The path is designed to be built in two phases, with the first phase going from Heron Park to Broad Street and the second phase going from Broad Street to the town’s boundary at Evans Road.
“the total of the two phases comes to $1,263,000,” Engelhart said.
STOP THE BIKE this Bike That !!!!! ENOUGH We need NO-Bike areas !!!!
Berlin politicians sure are liberal with taxpayers money.
Must be democrats….
Man. I’d hate to be in THEIR jurisdiction.
Of course, hanging them might slow their ace down a little…
what does the railroad think about this
they should contact jake gay. he is a specialist on this topic.
What ? 7:41