There was an awesome proposed grid connection through Skyview that these same communities fought, seeking a gate to block access to maintain the "secluded nature" of the community.

With the tower road closed to cars but open to walking, biking and rolling, there were two ways to get from the majority white neighborhoods to the majority white neighborhoods (let's be real on what historically Black means) by car and one way if you were using a mobility device. Now there are three ways by car and zero ways by mobility device. The older residents who own cars may win, but the residents with mobility challenges or without cars who were entirely invisible in this second process of privileged organizing under the banner of equity may as well continue to not exist.

Turns out Sandtown wants 20,000 city jobs with $50m in workforce training to get people into those labor apprenticeships.

There is an entire FEIS and ROD with specific answers to their concerns, they just don't believe the data and think it's made up. More tests confirming the prior data they already refuse to believe won't change their minds.

Well also, there will be no freight in the new tunnel. These folks succeeded in opposing that so it will stay in the old, more dangerous tunnel with worse (ie no) ventilation systems that runs through the same poor communities. Big win all around /s.

Have you noticed that the protestors (so 4 of the 5 that make up this group) are actually white, generally wealthier Reservoir Hill residents?

Electrified. Hogan is responsible for the diesel conversion for cost savings because he doesn't care about kids' lungs. They'll go back to electric.

Electrified. Hogan is responsible for the diesel conversion for cost savings because he doesn't care about kids' lungs. They'll go back to electric.

While we are a shitshow, we are at least repairing things. The county has taken the approach of deferring all maintenance. Is this not a grab to share that additional maintenance burden cost with city residents?

Comment periods then. Literally anything to get this stuff built faster.

How can we shorten bike project implementations to a week?

If it is solid red, you turn across it instead of entering it. Same thing you do for a separated bike lane in those instances. The dashed red at intersections is just to allow better turn queuing for cars where traffic is higher. It's honestly a shit design meant to make drivers happy and probably should be done away with as drivers still aren't happy. Just stay out of the bus lane, it isn't hard.

It's pretty damn expensive for Sysco special

The apps here require the photos too.

No they were new.

But the state of the system has a lot to do with the forced alignment and local funding building it on the cheap to get it done over opposition from all of the idiots that are now using the half-ass product they forced as the excuse to not build more. It's a tried and true NIMBY advocacy tactic: water something down until even advocates can't defend it, then point to it as a failure and the reason we shouldn't have more.

County legislators who argue local control all day love to prevent Baltimore from having the same authority because they're hypocrites who speed to their downtown law firms.

The article is terrible, almost everything reported in it is wrong (the bike lane network plan was actually supposed to be completed this year, and is from 2017, for example). There's no updated or new plan since that one had basically zero progress.

The second half of the installation bringing it to Monument is occurring this spring. They ran out of paving and striping season to do that part this fall.

For starters, Baltimore Police do not investigate hit and runs without uniquely identifiable striking vehicle information and a clear description of the driver. People know this and know they have a strong chance of facing no repercussions if they flee.

It wasn't a critique of their comment at all, but a critique of the opponents who are simultaneously demanding more parking in the project and complaining about potential traffic. You can't have it both ways. I upvoted failsafe.

If people are so worried about the car traffic they should advocate for a building with fewer or zero parking spaces and RPP that isn't eligible for building residents. But they won't do that because if anything they actually want more cars and parking and the traffic concerns are a red herring.

As a former professional housing advocate herself, it's definitely maddening to see this from her.

Well they fired the capital planning chief (see the post about hiring a new one) and the transit division chief, complete streets manager, bike planner, and data guy all left.

I think the plan is shit and they should develop inclusive of the chimney and building that are currently there, but the idea there should be no development because Hampden is too crowded is a fucking joke. This is a city.