March 18th, 2015 by WCBC Radio
After hearing public comment, most of it against the proposal, the Cumberland Mayor and City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to conduct a two week trial run of a bike lane on Frederick Street. The bike lane proposal has been in the talking stages for the better part of a year and the city has been awarded a grant of $78,000 to create such a lane in the Frederick and Bedford Street areas. It was Councilman David Kauffman who first suggested last year the idea of a trial period to see how traffic might be impacted- and the council moved ahead with that proposal last night. Its expected the council will make a final decision after the trial period- which at this point hasn’t been scheduled. Councilwoman Nicole Alt Myers asked those in attendance to give the trial run a chance, and afterward to provide constructive input…
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