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By MICHAEL DRESSER | February 11, 2008
Greg Cantori wants to get into the Colombian import business and bring his product to the streets of Baltimore. No, Cantori isn't a character on The Wire. Nor is he risking a federal drug rap. He's president of One Less Car - a group that advocates for better infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians. What he'd like to import is a concept called ciclovia - a weekly festival on the streets of Bogota. He and his colleagues have been meeting with city officials, urging them to bring the idea to Baltimore under the Americanized name "Sunday Streets."
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By Melissa Harris | November 3, 2006
Howard County police have arrested a 20-year-old Ellicott City man in the Sept. 26 sexual assault of a woman on a Columbia bike path. Police said yesterday that a detective recognized Ji Hwan Shin of the 2900 block of Brookwood Road as a known sex offender from a description provided by the victim. According to court documents, Shin had registered as a sex offender with Howard County police after being convicted on two counts of misdemeanor sex abuse in February in Washington. Court records state that Shin had run up to two women and grabbed their breasts.
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By CHRIS YAKAITIS | June 12, 2006
When Leslie Miller spotted three 8-foot-long swaths of graffiti on the Herring Run Park bike path last month, she wanted them removed as quickly as possible. When she tried to use the information on a park marker to tell the city about the problem, she got more frustrated. An Internet site set up to notify authorities wouldn't accept "Hooper's Field" as a valid street address. When she spoke with an operator at the city's 311 nonemergency call center, she had to launch into a convoluted story to pinpoint the location of the defacing.
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By JOANNA DAEMMRICH | April 17, 2006
Rescued by a surge in ticket sales, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad is getting ready for another tourist season, having survived a state cut that threatened to end the historic train ride through the mountains. The old-fashioned tourist train, one of the last in the nation to be pulled by a steam locomotive, almost reached the end of the line last year. State officials stopped a $250,000 annual subsidy, refused to provide even a more modest sum - and warned of the risks of running beside a new bike path.
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By Marion Winik | April 21, 2002
It seems like it should take more than 35 minutes to get from downtown Baltimore to the cow-studded hillsides of greater Glen Rock, Pa. But it doesn't. So if what you crave is weathered farm buildings, nursing foals, value-priced antiques or a really good mini-doughnut, head north on Interstate 83. You'll be here before you know it. But where is here, actually? If you don't know what you're doing, you can get off at the exit marked Glen Rock and drive for quite a while before you see anything like a mini-doughnut or a 19th-century ceramic crock.
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By Laura Cadiz | April 11, 2002
The Merion Station Townhouse Association in Harper's Choice is planning to erect 14-foot lights at residents' cost to increase safety, a move the community association's board president is calling "proactive." The association hopes to have four sodium vapor lights installed by Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. by summer's end to accompany four that were put in this year, said Bob Wills, president of the board of directors. "We are interested in maintaining the amenities and safety of the community, and I think we all look at this as a positive step," Wills said.
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By Jason Song | March 24, 2002
The Howard County Sierra Club and other environmental groups would like to bring people closer to nature, but not too close in Patapsco Valley State Park. The group filed an appeal with the state Department of the Environment last week in a last-ditch effort to block construction of a 1.25-mile paved trail extension that would open the 14,000-acre park to bicyclists and hikers from Ellicott City and other communities along the Patapsco River to the north. A permit for the trail to cross less than 100 square feet of Patapsco wetland was granted Feb. 20 to the state Department of Natural Resources by the Maryland Department of the Environment.
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By Jason Song | March 24, 2002
The Howard County Sierra Club and other environmental groups would like to bring people closer to nature, but not too close in Patapsco Valley State Park. The group filed an appeal with the state Department of the Environment last week in a last-ditch effort to block construction of a 1.25-mile paved trail extension that would open the 14,000-acre park to bicyclists and hikers from Ellicott City and other communities along the Patapsco River to the north. A permit for the trail to cross less than 100 square feet of Patapsco wetland was granted Feb. 20 to the state Department of Natural Resources by the Maryland Department of the Environment.
NEWS
June 4, 2000
Howard County police are investigating an armed robbery in Columbia in which $140 was taken from a 17-year-old boy. The teen was walking on a bike path in the rear of the 5700 block of Stevens Forest Road in Oakland Mills village shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday when a man came out of the woods. The boy told police the man approached him from behind, pressed a hard object to his back and demanded money, police said. After the boy emptied his pockets, the robber took the cash and ran on the path toward the Tor apartment complex, police said.
NEWS
By Brian Sullam | August 2, 1998
WHEN IT comes to controversial public works projects, bike trails have moved right up there with jails and landfills.The effort to block the construction of a bicycle trail 7/10ths of mile long through Poplar Park in Annapolis follows a disturbing pattern in other jurisdictions.Residents in communities as diverse as Westminster, in Carroll County, and Mount Washington, in Baltimore, have fought the creation of bike trails because of their supposed magnetic effect on criminals.I have never understood why people believe that bike trails offer easier access to victims than the roads and streets that crisscross our communities.