Bicyclists, if you’re tired of sharing the asphalt with those four-wheeled fossil-fuel-burners, your day has come.
Baltimore city officials have granted a permit to allow Roland Avenue to be closed to vehicular traffic on the morning of Oct. 25., the city’s first experiment with a bicycles-only city street.
If you’re going to need to drive that day, you’d better steer clear. And if you get a kick out of life’s little ironies, click through to see the not-so-green ad that appeared on this event’s Facebook page.

Unlike the annual closure of the elevated Jones Falls Expressway for bikers, roller-bladers, skateboarders and pedestrians, this event takes place on a wide and shady avenue in residential north Baltimore. South-bound Roland will be closed to cars between Northern Parkway and Cold Spring Lane from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

This first “Sunday Streets” event, sponsored by the Roland Park Civic League, is one of many envisioned by city bicycle advocates.  More information available at Baltimore Spokes, the city’s home for two-wheeler talk and One Less Car, which explains that the Oct. 25th event is part of a whole Roland Park Sustainability Weekend .

An odd footnote and, no doubt a weird coincidence related to the rolling ads that appear in Facebook these days:  the Facebook page set up for this environmentally-friendly event has an ad on it from . . . the coal industry !