How Can We Safely Exercise Outdoors if the Trails Are Crowded?

Since the start of the pandemic, the number of people using Montgomery County’s popular trail system has exploded, making it challenging to properly observe social distancing. In response, Montgomery County created a web app to help people find low-stress streets where they can comfortably walk, bike, and jog throughout neighborhoods instead. 

RESOURCES

Web App

• Low-Stress Streets for Bicyclists and Pedestrian Web App

Websites

• University of Maryland, COVID-19 Impact Analysis Platform
  Provides data and insight on the impacts of COVID-19 on mobility, health, the economy, and society for all states and counties with daily updates
• DVRPC Bicycle LTS and Connectivity Analysis
  Web map that ranks roads based on Level of Traffic Stress (LTS), a road classification system based on the comfort to bicyclists and includes  rankings for individual streets and maps islands of low traffic stress
• Bike Montco: The Bicycle Plan for Montgomery County
  Montgomery County’s 2018 bicycle plan includes a future vision of a planned bicycle network based in part on data derived from the DVRPC Bicycle LTS and Connectivity Data

Articles

• Montco Launches New App To Guide Socially Distant Exercise
  News article introducing and summarizing the Low-Stress Streets for Bicyclists and Pedestrians web app

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