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It's an award the city is proud to receive
because it recognizes cross departmental

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collaboration and also it
says that Rockville is

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a bike friendly community it's official
the city of Rockville has been honored as

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a bicycle friendly community an award
that rock feels pedestrian and bicycle

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coordinator Matt Folden is proud to
accept we were recently designated as

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a bicycle friendly community at the
bronze level by the League of American

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Bicyclists this is important the city because
it really recognizes all the efforts

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that go on behind the scenes across all
departments the police public works

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community pointing development services
city managers office public information

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it's really

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a team effort in addition to our colleagues
in the Rockville bicycle advisory

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committee Rockville has applied for this
award in the past and just last year

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received honorable mention So what made the
difference with this year I think we've

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really step things up in the past few
years we've added new bicycle facilities

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we're working to revise our bike we master
plan so that'll be coming in the near

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future and just

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a lot of things have come together in the
last few years we'll be getting bike

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share hopefully on the ground in
the spring and I think there's

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a lot of exciting things going on for
bicycling in Rockville Rockville maintains

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thirty miles of shared use paths including
the thirteen mile coral head memorial

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millennium trail which is known as the
city's bicycle Beltway foldings message to

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Rockville cyclists when they see the new
signs they should be proud of bicycling in

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Rockville and just know that for every
mile bike lane that they see on the road

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there's

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a lot of work going on with development
review. Enforcement and education efforts

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and just be proud to bike around Rockville
to learn more about biking in Rockville

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gone line to Rockville and dot
gov and search bicycling.