The Howard County Times’ Dec. 15, 2016, coverage of the county’s first budget hearing featured the request for the Bikeway.
Read: Bicyclists seek county funding for ‘Bikeway’ network during first Howard budget hearing
On Wednesday evening, the Horizon Foundation, Howard County Chamber of Commerce, Columbia Association and Howard County General Hospital were among several organizations to submit testimony supporting the Bikeway proposal. The County Council unanimously passed the Bike Howard master plan in April to provide bicyclists and pedestrians with a safer network of pathways that navigate commercial and residential areas.