Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Sadly they are not alone in this. The University of Pittsburgh did something very similar a few years back (again, driven by Green activists on campus) They wiped out several hundred parking spaces that were heavily used by commuter students to create an “urban greenway” and to “encourage the use of public transportation and bicycles”
Of course, it did not work out that way. It just exacerbated the parking problem elsewhere in the neighborhood. And this rather shabby Urban Greenway now contains a Merry-Go-Round and a Tofu stand, giving it the appearance of a Third World County Fair.