I don’t currently take the busses in Baltimore so I’m not an expert. When I would, they weren’t quite as reliable as WMATA, but it’s also a 10-15 minute bus ride on a major route so there’s only so it’s sort of the best case scenario route. I’d defer to others on this.

As far as biking - it’s around 3 miles with a 250ft incline, so I’d leave it up to you to decide if that’s doable. There’s a fully separated bike lane just a block over from Penn Station on Maryland Ave that goes all the way up to that area.

None of those are stroads. A stroad would have sidewalks, constant businesses directly off it, billboards, etc. All of those are roads.

Because it’s public so everyone has right to usage. Thus, if one person wants to monopolize the usage, they should have to reserve it. In this case, you’re profiting off of public land so paying a fee for its usage absolutely makes sense.

(Also, the other usages of right of way you reference are all transportive in nature and all only use those sqft momentarily. This is not the same sort of usage.)

From comments I see you’ll be working in Kernewood and your partner in Capitol Hill. The absolute best places for you to live then would either be Capitol Hill or near Penn Station and one of you takes the train to the other city. Especially if it’s just 3 days a week of commuting for you, I’d say to live in Capitol Hill and walk over to Union Station, take any of dozens of trains that go between the cities in the morning for a 30-50 minute ride, then figure out transportation up to Kernewood. The total commute from Union to Kernewood would be around 1’15”, and most of that is on a train that allows you to do work or relax rather than drive. And if it’s hybridized, your work might even be cool with you “clocking in” when the train leaves Union Station and being available remotely for that time (some employers play ball with this so see about it).

Now if your partner is also hybridized in his schedule, maybe try Mount Vernon Baltimore instead of Capitol Hill. It’s in walking distance to the train station and would possibly be half as expensive to find a place than Capitol Hill. As someone who’s worked in DC from Baltimore for years and lived in DC for two, I cannot emphasize harder just how much cheaper it is to live in Baltimore than DC. Like my entire home mortgage is less than I was paying for a small bedroom in a two bed in Truxton Circle (and that place was a steal).

I just would not recommend you living anywhere in DC and driving for rush hour. The two cities are super close, yes, but to get to Kernewood via highways is like trying to get to Adams Morgan, so unless off peak hours you’re looking at a long commute from somewhere like Capitol Hill. A compromise suburb just means both of you will have to commute and it doesn’t necessarily sound like either of you are looking for a suburban lifestyle from the comments. Also, there are far more train options and trains with less stops (Amtrak has 1 or 2 stops between Penn and Union) than any of the MARC towns inbetween.

tl;dr: Amtrak and MARC are your friends in this, look at things near the train stations and you both should be happy

Eh, Truxton isn’t great if they’re trying to get to Baltimore easily on a commute. I lived there from 2019-2021. Florida to Dave Thomas Circle is a nightmare. Ivy City would be a little easier.

If you live right next to Penn Station in Baltimore, you’d be living closer to Union Station by train than Rockville or Vienna, and if they’re working in Capitol Hill then it’s a simple walk from there.

Columbia isn’t stroady at all. Columbia has very good road hierarchy.

$10/sqft feels really cheap for this

There was a flash freeze event maybe 2014 or 2015? Whenever the last polar vortex winter was

Don’t risk it. The DOT account confirmed they won’t be able to pretreat the roads due to it being a rain event before the rapid temperature drop, so they have to standby for when the freeze begins to start treating. That’ll be around 11am, and given how past flash freezes have gone (and that the temperature will just keep plummeting down to single digits while winds will be 30mph), I would highly advise to not go out unless absolutely necessary. Things should be fine on Saturday though (albeit cold as fuck)

Also - make sure to keep your water taps open. Just a slight drop will help make sure your pipes don’t freeze (and burst)

The worst will be from 9am to 10am in it dropping ~10 degrees. But overall it will go from 54 degrees at midnight today to 8 degrees Saturday morning.

> I get the logistics but with the hospitality industry you sort of need to use the space you have.

You also have to be able to adequately staff the space. If you can’t do that, then you need to reduce the space being served - hence, closing off part of it to maximize efficient, good service. Which leads to…

> Why do we have a dedicated space to order at the bar?

Two reasons:

1. So you can be more efficient with service by localizing customers and don’t necessarily need a wait staff. If you don’t have enough staff to adequately have table service, this is a good way to get around that.
2. So people don’t have to fight for a spot to just make an order. People don’t have to order over each other, you don’t have the risk of the bartender never noticing you when you’ve been waiting to a long time.

I have absolutely zero idea what you’re talking about with it being “theater”

I’m sorry but you didn’t answer my question

Bro doesn’t want to live in a republican society because of the taxes but would 100% gladly take advantage of the fruits of such a place.

> I'm trying to get my mom more involved in socialist events, community spaces, or organizing efforts.

> as a new and learning socialist

So is she one or are you trying to make her one? Because that will change the sorts of locations you’ll get recommended (and possibly the tone of the responses)

> If you are open downstairs, why not also upstairs.

First just the logistics: downstairs is smaller thus if you have less staff on that night you can far more easily man it than upstairs alone.

But second, downstairs is a far cooler space than upstairs.

Fox45 was once again just stirring shit without actually fact-checking

Disney isn’t in Orlando though. Part of it isn’t even in the same county.

Maybe then a private company shouldn’t be involved. Just like with prisons.

Hot take: public roads’ tolls and ticket endorment shouldn’t have a vendor doing anything

I feel like they’re also not the type to show up for jury duty

Dude what did bike lines do to you that you can’t even understand that I’m just saying “install bike lanes and the issue gets solved?”

> I’d rather scooters be banned completely than ridden on sidewalks. They are dangerous to pedestrians and drivers.

Ohhhhh you’re just a NIMBY about bike lanes, this all makes sense now.

You’re really not understanding me. Here’s the sequence causing this issue:

• People want to bike or scooter.
• People try on the streets.
• The streets don’t have proper bike infrastructure, people feel unsafe.
• People bike/scoot on the sidewalks where they feel safer.
• Pedestrians feel unsafe on the sidewalks.

You’re trying to solve the problem allllll the way down at step 5 and only for the pedestrians, when that doesn’t address what caused that to happen: the issue of bikers/scooter…ers feeling unsafe on the roads. The lack of proper bike infrastructure is the cause. The effect of not building it while banning them from sidewalks is people will just completely stop biking/scooting at all.

I’m not saying they’re right or wrong, I’m explaining why it’s happening and what the solution is.

The charts show the amount of vehicles parked at Cross Street Market (corral or not) decreasing by 24% after the implementation of the pilot program. What do you attribute that to? Ridership in general being lower for the latter period or has there also been an increase of vehicles parked in other nearby zones during that period (and thus, presumably, people parking farther and walking)?