Yes, I’m a practicing physical therapist in the city. Most of my patients now are victims of random violence. Years ago I saw many sports injuries and vehicle accidents, now my roster is primarily shooting victims. They weren’t dealing drugs or in the game as people call it. They were minding their own business walking to or from work or riding the bus, or driving in the city when a random interaction escalated fast to violence. Most say they don’t know what happened or what they could do differently to avoid it in the future. I focus on Medicaid and medical assistance hmo patients because that’s the greatest need in the city but these incidents happen to people of all walks of life. Please be careful and avoid anything that might become confrontational.

u/BmoreCityDOT can you answer if we’re correct about 295?

I got a link for the state Highway projects from our block captain. She doesn’t think repaving 295 by the city line is a scheduled project but you can look through the list to see. Baltimore is in District 4 for the state highways.

She also said Baltimore DOT, not the state is responsible for 295 inside the city. The original question about 295 ramps might be better directed to the Baltimore City dot representative who is on here. I don’t fully understand it, I believe she said 95 and 895 are state maintenance but the 295 part inside the city is city DOT.

I can’t figure out how to tag the DOT person to ask them.

https://mdot-sha-project-portal-maryland.hub.arcgis.com/pages/project-list-and-links

You’re welcome! I believe if we all work together on the little things we can make Baltimore much more liveable.

I will ask our block captain woman, she knows about state highway projects.

I use the Maryland Highway agency service request website! It works. I requested they clean the area of I-95 near S. Caton Avenue, a crew came out to clean the litter. Our neighborhood has a woman who works with traffic construction, she got us this link for all the request. So far my clean up request and another neighbor’s new sign request were done. It takes time to do the picture and the request but it’s worth it to see improvement.

https://marylandsha.secure.force.com/customercare/apex/request_for_service?sfdcIFrameOrigin=null

I’m a only little concerned about possible impact to our area, they found the chemicals in the Ohio River but that flows into the Mississippi, not close to here. I’m much more worried about the other derailments and hazmat accidents closer to us that don’t get reported. There was a fuel spill near me yesterday, on Caton Avenue at the new Royal Farms. I only heard about it because one of my son’s friends was part of the response team. He said they didn’t get called until there was already fuel spreading over the roadway and into the storm drains. His coworkers didn’t really know what to do or who they were supposed to call. I don’t have faith in the local processes for cleaning up and reporting this kind of problem. I wouldn’t know anything about that if I didn’t hear it from a family friend, I’m a little concerned other spills don’t get reported.

That is one of the houses on Powers Avenue near Sherwood. It isn’t too far from the Dulaney Valley Assisted living if you know where that is.I believe the Browning family built the house, it was relatively new when those murders happened. That area used to be open fields.

DOT closed the requests as “gone on arrival”, even though the car is still there.

I forgot to mention the corner of Bloomfield Avenue and Saint Benedict Street. This is not a tractor trailer parking, it’s a car with an expired license plate used by a heroin dealer as his shop. He sits in the car during the evening and night to sell, he stays inside a vacant home during the day. Every now and then In” see him drive to the gas station, for the most part the car is on the corner for weeks at a time without moving. The city police said they can’t do anything because this is a DOT matter, because of the expired licensed plates. The county policeman who comes to our block meeting is certain city police could mark the car for towing if they wanted, but he hasn’t worked for city police for years so the process may have changed. The car is parked past the no parking sign at the corner, making it hard to see around the corner to turn, plus the people who come to the area to buy from leave litter around. I asked my neighbor, she has called 311 about the expired licensed plates multiple times. There should be 311 requests about it. Do you need the 23- number from her?

Thank you for responding. Is there any way you can do a crack down in Oaklee, Violetville and Saint Agnes? The same district as Pogtown but often we don’t get the same services. Truckers park along Southwestern Boulevard, the 3800 block. They idle the trucks which makes a terrible noise and pollution for the people who live over there. They dump trash, the bottles of urine and bags from their travel potties with toilet paper and feces on the side of the road. It’s not a fun time to clean up. I go to the Oaklee block meetings, people are moving away because of this problem. Another area for crackdown could be Haverhill Road and Pine Heights Avenue, one way short cuts for trucks between Benson Avenue and Wilkens Avenue but these are residential only streets, no through trucks are allowed. This area is worse than it has ever been in my years living off Wilkens, I won’t walk through there because of the trucks going off the road onto sidewalks to make the turns. The old Violetville Community Association had speed bumps installed on Pine Heights which helped, there are still trucks driving through.

I live in Saint Agnes, Little Violetville the kids call it. The trucks park along Wilkens Avenue, Unetta Avenue, Primson Avenue, sometimes for a short while sometimes overnight for days or weeks. These roads are small it’s difficult to navigate out to Wilkens Avenue around the trucks. A dear friend of mine was in a terrible accident because she couldn’t see around the trucks. This was a few years ago, I believe the motorcyclist she hit passed away from his injuries. The old community association had bollards installed to prevent this type of accident. With more trucks here now it is a true safety concern again. I greatly appreciate your help, we’ve been without a community group for a long time the neighborhood is getting forgotten.

Oh that’s unfortunate, so much of the city is in disarray and then adding the state as another layer of bureaucracy never seems to help.

You lost me with your example, Edmondson-Westside is an application school, students apply to go there.

My point is that students from a bad area have less opportunity during elementary school, test lower, and are less likely to be accepted into better middle and high schools. These students then have to go the middle and high school in their catchment area. So those schools that didn’t meet AYP can’t improve averages by bringing in students from out of the area, and also have the students from the lower performing elementary schools. It’s a downward spiral, that’s my point.

That’s not completely true, schools that meet their Annual Yearly Progress are open to applications from any student, the lower scoring schools are not open to applications. Also, schools don’t have to accept every student who applies, this means the schools that don’t meet AYP are filled with local students only, while the better schools can accept the better students and keep getting better. It creates a downward spiral for schools, once the AYP isn’t met no students from outside the catchment area can apply, if the school is in a bad area then you have children from a bad area stuck going to the school in the bad area.

No, schools are city or county based. My grandsons are in Howard County schools, the difference is amazing.

Is your staff authorized to give tickets to tractors trailers parked illegally? Or to tractor trailers who travel through residential neighborhoods where they aren’t supposed to?

I believe much of the rating is based on the personal reviews. I added a review for my neighborhood, the change showed immediately.

Did you read through the personal statements about your neighborhood? Maybe your neighbors have things they like about the area.

Thank you this was helpful. I didn’t know this site before, it has interesting reviews of the city neighborhoods.

This is interesting thank you for posting. I didn’t know about this site before. I looked at the city ratings and drilled down to the neighborhood ratings. The neighborhood ratings have personal comments from people who live and work there. My neighborhood Saint Agnes only had one rating, the comment was accurate, I would have given more than one star. The ratings and comments for the surrounding neighborhoods are accurate based on my experience.

This is good tool for people moving into the city or moving from one neighborhood to another. It’s also a good tool to see how neighborhoods changed, the larger neighborhood next to me Violetville went from five stars mentioning the good school, park and friendly neighbors to one star mentioning blight and how the local wellness group is similar to a HOA. Good reading, I also notice they include reviews of the local schools, the details are interesting.

I also agree this clearly shows the white L areas on green, while the surrounding areas are not as green, the areas of Carrollton Ridge, Sandtowne, and maybe Harlem Park are red, my experience is those are tougher areas.

Thank you for posting, very good information.

Council President Nick Mosby is above her, his ethics are definitely questionable. I called his office over two years ago when we first started seeing the results of all the preferential treatment. I never received a response. The grifters go all the way to the top. I know multiple areas of the neighborhood received help directly from the mayor’s office on specific issues. I believe this situation is one we have to vote our way out of. We just have to vote better, unless someone else has ideas.

I agree, but dealt with by whom? It sounded like the people at the neighborhood meeting already reported it to DPW. Our own neighborhood group is defunct because of the village of Violetville group the councilwoman created. I don’t know what other type of representative would help. It highlights the need to have ethical people in elected positions, the wrong people do the wrong thing and it negatively impacts the entire area.

It’s surreal to read complaints about mud in other neighborhoods, we have whole trees that fell in the road last year and still haven’t been removed.

The city started giving every student free lunch under the federal program in 2015 because it was easier than processing the applications for all the students, at the time the majority of students qualified based on their family income. They don’t collect family income information anymore, students in federal hill get the same access to free breakfast and lunch as students in Carrollton ridge.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/bs-md-ci-poverty-undercount-20180202-story.html

It’s not universally done because it doesn’t make sense to give federally funded free meals to students who aren’t needed. Baltimore mismanaged the federal funding.

School lunches are federally funded.