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If you look at a Capital Bikeshare station map, you’ll quickly notice that there are no stations in Maryland. None. That could soon change, expanding the scope of the popular bike-sharing program beyond the District and Arlington County.

Yesterday Gov. Martin O’Malley announced seven winners of his new Maryland Bikeshare Program grants—both for implementation and feasibility studies. The winners of the implementation grants were Baltimore City, Montgomery County and a joint project between the University of Maryland and the City of College Park; grants for feasibility studies included Frederick City, Howard County and a joint project between Prince George’s County and the City of Greenbelt. The grants for the year will total over $2 million.

According to a Post article published in February, Rockville will be the first part of Montgomery County to join Capital Bikeshare, with plans to 20 docking stations and 200 bikes by this summer. Montgomery County’s application for the implementation grant ambitiously envisioned 29 new stations with 204 bikes at locations close to D.C.

The grants will also allow for the implementation of bike-sharing in College Park, which will in part aid the feasibility study in Greenbelt and further make the case for east-west bicycle connectivity in the Maryland suburbs surrounding D.C.

Last November, Baltimore announced its own bike-sharing program, B-cycle, which will have between 250 and 300 bikes. City officials hope to kick off the bike-sharing program in September.

Capital Bikeshare currently has over 1,100 bikes at 130 stations in D.C. and Arlington.