Maryland Bikeways
Eligibility Interactive Map Guidance
The Kim Lamphier Bikeways Network Program provides grant support for a wide range of bicycle network development activities. The program supports projects that maximize bicycle access and enhance last-mile connections to work, school, shopping and transit. The Bikeways Program seeks to leverage past investments in bicycle facilities, complement existing state, local, and federal programs, and promote biking as a fun and healthy transportation mode. The program prioritizes funding projects which improve safety and access for disadvantaged communities.
To be eligible for funding through the Bikeways program, a project must meet at least two (2) of the following eligibility criteria:
- Access to transit
- Sustainable Community or Bicycle and Pedestrian Priority Area (BPPA)
- Main Streets or Major Institution
- Access to Low Income area
- Safety Intervention
- County Priority
Follow the maps below from left to right for further exploration of these criteria:
1. Access to Transit:
Project is located within three (3) miles of a rail transit station or major bus transit hub.
(Project would fall within the highlighted blue areas on this map)
2. Sustainable Community OR Bicycle and Pedestrian Priority Area (BPPA)
Project enhances bicycle circulation within, or access to, a Maryland Sustainable Community area or a BPPA.
Project would fall within either the red Sustainable Community Area OR within the Brown BPPA areas
3. Main Streets or Major Institution
Project enhances bicycle circulation within, or access to, a designated Maryland Main Street or major institution (more than 1,000 people on its campus or grounds daily, such as universities, hospitals, shopping malls).
Project falls within the bright red areas (Note that they are quite small) in this map
4. Access to Low Income Area
Project enhances bicycle circulation within, or access for disadvantaged communities (identified at the Census Tract level using the Climate Solutions Now Act’s 2022 definitions of overburdened and underserved communities).
(Project falls within the CSNA areas in this map)
5. Safety Intervention
Project provides a significant safety intervention on a Vulnerable Roadway User roadway or project provides a Level of Traffic Stress reduction of 3 or more levels
(Project falls within the teal VRU Buffer Areas on this map)
- OR -
Alternately - use this map to find the current Levels of Traffic Stress (LTS) for your project area and then this methodology to investigate if your project can reduce the LTS by 3 or more levels).
6. County Priority
Project is identified as a transportation priority in a County’s most recent annual priority letter submitted to MDOT.
(Visit MDOT's Priority Letter Map page to view current and/or previous county and municipal priority letters (Screenshot on right). Link: https://mdot.maryland.gov/tso/pages/Index.aspx?PageId=82 )
Bikeways Applications should meet at least 2 of the previous 6 criteria. This map shows are all the criteria (with the exception of #6 - County/Municipal Priority Letter ).
This map also includes Maryland's Road-Separated Bike Routes (Existing Trails) to encourage connectivity with existing road-separated routes.
In order to apply for a MD Bikeways grant, you must be one of the following:
- Maryland local governments, alone or in partnership with other jurisdictions or private organizations
- Maryland State Agencies
- Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs)
- Transit entities operating in Maryland
- Non-profit organizations
- Federal public lands agencies
For more information - please visit MDOT's Kim Lamphier Bikeways Network Program webpage. We look forward to your application!