Bikemore endorses Zeke Cohen for City Council President, Bill Henry for Comptroller, and in select City Council races

Bikemore is launching our #IBikeIVote2024 campaign with our endorsement of Zeke Cohen for City Council President, as well as endorsements for Comptroller and in select City Council races.

Over the past four years, legislation critical to Baltimore’s ability to compete with peer cities and deliver access to opportunity for its residents has languished in City Council, failing to be heard while time has instead been spent on political grandstanding.

Addressing Baltimore’s transportation failures can not be placed in a queue behind other challenges, but must be seen as a solution to addressing them. Zeke Cohen gets this, and we are confident he will not only allow, but champion an evidence-based legislative agenda.

Bikemore is also endorsing the following candidates:

Bill Henry, Comptroller
Ryan Dorsey, 3rd District
Paris Gray, 8th District
John Bullock, 9th District
Zac Blanchard, 11th District

Bikemore will make a decision on mayoral endorsement after our Mayoral Transportation Forum on Thursday, April 11th.

Read the full questionnaires from candidates for Council President and City Council by clicking below.

Action Alert: City Council Bike Lane Hearing Scheduled for March 7th

On January 22nd, City Council Vice President Sharon Green Middleton announced yet another hearing on bike infrastructure, requested by the Fox45/Sinclair backed Anti-Complete Streets group.

The hearing has been scheduled for 4:00pm on Thursday, March 7th in council chambers. The public can attend in-person or virtually at this link.

The individuals calling for these hearings have been very clear: they want a moratorium on new bike lanes, removal of existing bike lanes, and repeal of Baltimore City’s Complete Streets ordinance.

Please send an email to City Council serving as written testimony for this hearing. Customize it with your own story of why increased investment in safer bike infrastructure is important to you as a resident and taxpayer.

Another Council Hearing Against Complete Streets and Bike Lanes

On Monday, January 22nd, City Council Vice President Sharon Green Middleton is announcing yet another hearing requested by the Fox45/Sinclair backed Anti-Complete Streets group, who are using this momentum to try and repeal Complete Streets, halt bike infrastructure construction, and rip out existing bike infrastructure.

Send an email to City Council now telling them enough is enough. Please customize it with your own story of why continued investment in Complete Streets and all-ages bike infrastructure is important to you.

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Across the nation and in Maryland, fatal crashes involving pedestrians and bicyclists are on the rise. Here in Baltimore, they're dropping, evidence Baltimore's Complete Streets ordinance and the investments being made in traffic calming our high-injury network are working.

Baltimore is also in the top 10 cities for growth in bicycling since 2019—seeing a 56.4% growth in ridership—thanks to our city's investment in all-ages bicycle infrastructure. 

These statistics are gaining national attention, with the federal government recently awarding the city tens of millions of grant dollars to double down on these investments, increasing access to opportunity and reducing injury and death.

Despite these obvious successes, our City Council leadership continues to cave to a small group of Fox45/Sinclair Media backed individuals, hosting investigatory hearings on Complete Streets and Bike Lanes.

The opponents calling for these hearings have stated they want bike lanes and bus lanes removed citywide. They want Complete Streets repealed. 

City Council Vice President Sharon Green Middleton is introducing yet another hearing at tonight's council meeting. 

We're asking you to send an email saying you're tired of this nonsense, and that you want your elected officials to spend time and resources on implementing proven Complete Streets and bike infrastructure treatments, not opposing them. 

Please customize the email. Tell them why this is important to you.