Ah yes, because a meth lab can’t explode or poison you unless it tries to sell you drugs.

What’s Safety and what’s a block captain?

I just went on Amtrak’s site because that didn’t sound right, and you can definitely get round trip for 2 for $250 total or less. Just book a Northeast Regional (Acela is much more expensive) and compare hours. It’s going to be the most comfortable and easiest option of any.

There are buses that run between the cities, but I don’t know what companies other than Greyhound still exist since the pandemic and YMMV regarding comfortability.

You probably wouldn’t find an Uber below $300 and it’s not going to be comfortable.

Renting a car is an option, but again probably not as cheap.

There are some direct flights between BWI and JFK and LGA, but again it’s doubtful you’d find below $400 roundtrip for 2 for such an uncommon route. Plus you’ll have to get to the airports and go through airport security.

The Wharf is also all private property including the streets and pedestrian streets off Maine Ave, which can cause issues sometimes…

Watch the original, though

You order fries and they by default have Old Bay on them

It feels like a lot of the roads that come off of or to over 83 have this issue. That and cars speeding super fast into those areas.

I took the Light Rail the other day from Camden to Timonium for a doctor’s appointment. It was honestly fantastic, and Kaiser was super smart putting the new building right next to the Light Rail stop. I wish there was more transit-oriented development with the Light Rail.

The downtown stretch really is the worst part, but I don’t mind it having to deal with red lights - the one in the post picture also has to. I think if Howard St was pedestrianized it would be far better for all parties.

The only other issue is that trains aren’t going nearly often enough. To generate good usage, three things are needed: location, regularity, consistency. Sometimes you can make up for consistency by having more trains, so a delay for one or missing one doesn’t hurt as much. I want to say the Light Rail is every ~20-30 minutes; it really should be every 15 at max.

Also, weekend and night service should be expanded. And maybe officially make the Light Rail free (most people hop on and off without paying anyway!)

I believe they’re reused from Boston?

Howard St should just be pedestrianized down town. It would probably spur development there better than whatever the current plans are.

The Aquarium gives ample time to talk and get to know the person. It and museums are great options in Baltimore for first dates (worth mentioning that BMA and Walters are free, as are the Smithsonian in DC if you’re ever doing a day-trip date with someone).

Just like any of those sorts of places, it more just depends on how recently they have gone and if they’re even interested in it.

I would like to hear what “infrastructure” means.

Hol up, Spencer’s is now a sex toys store??

Remember that we had a few days where the low was 0 - so yeah you kept the temp relatively low at 60 but that’s still your radiator trying to heat ~20k cubic feet of air up 60 degrees; it’s like if it was 30 degrees and you were cranking it to 90. It was bound to be an expensive month.

That all being said, insulation is def something that’s easy to do that and pays for itself quickly. Def do the audit with BGE beforehand where someone comes to your home and runs diagnostics on it to find where heat is escaping - that’ll help you a lot in figuring out where to focus on. Also consider Budget Billing.

Just dress like you’re going to a Dan Deacon show, don’t overthink it!

Honestly, the biggest thing that grinds me gears is people throwing trash bags into the recycling. DPW just skips those cans then on both collection days because they can’t take plastic bags on recycling and they’re not in green cans for trash.

Honestly, this is probably the easiest option.

Of course you’ll have to find coconuts first, though. Perhaps from a swallow.

They said in the post the assessment matches what they paid for it in 2021

It is, which is why I commented asking if this happened before or after they purchased the property and if this is their only house. They also purchased “above market value,” which might complicate things.

> I paid above market value for it in 2021, and the new assessed value is identical to the closing price.

Well there’s your first problem in all of this.

But second, did the value increase after you had purchased the property? If so, and if this is your only property, it might quality for Homestead which means the tax bill can only increase so much year-to-year. However, it’s over the course of your ownership of it and you qualify for Homestead then the bill might be decreased.

You know what, after you’ve now changed what you were even calling a stroad from the beginning and ignored me saying I watched the entire video (even referring to such to say the sorts of things featured in the latter half don’t look anything like Columbia) just to quip that I’m defending “Columbia to a fault” (never was) - I really don’t have any more spoons for you.

Yes, I watch a number of urbanist channels on YouTube too. (I prefer City Nerd’s video more though.) Columbia does not have stroads.

> They have high speeds, the areas around them aren’t accessible via anything but a car, wide,highway sized lanes, long turn lanes, large signs meant to be seen from speeding cars

You’ve described a road or a highway - and in the video you linked to, those are the descriptors has had for roads and highways. It’s in the first like two minutes.

> constant traffic lights

Debatable for Columbia’s distances, and for the purpose of those lights primarily being for collectors intersections.

> and even destinations just off of them with massive parking lots between.

They don’t directly load onto the main parkways of Columbia, though. Nearly every one of the big box strip malls loads onto a side-road which then meets up with the parkways. Thus, that’s proper traffic hierarchy and not a stroad. If it was a stroad, all of the big boxes would load directly onto the parkways. See: your video.

Like really, the video you linked to has footage from undeniable stroads and nothing in and around Columbia looks like them. The closest is Town Center around the Mall, but that’s not even as clear cut as being “stroady.” Columbia could be called auto-oriented (although that does a slight disservice to the model for the villages being walkable), but it’s not stroady like Laurel, Silver Spring, College Park, Towson, etc.

> Exempting some waterfront property owners from setback and mitigation requirements entirely would make Baltimore County unique among the state’s 24 jurisdictions.

> Under current law, developers who can’t meet critical area mitigation requirements are charged a fee that is used on waterway restoration initiatives. It’s unclear if the proposed bill would waive those fees.

> “I’m scratching my head over how they think they’re gonna do this,” said Jon Mueller, vice president of litigation at the Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

> “It violates state law,” Mueller said, adding that he can’t recall any other Maryland jurisdiction attempting to circumvent critical area laws with such exemptions.

That was my biggest question: if this was something unique to Baltimore County or if other counties had something similar. Seems like it would be the former, in which case fuck this.

Yeah, but at the same time if it’s a live-streamed special, I’d think it might lean towards the nicest places as far as tech goes - which if it’s available by then, will be the Arena

It’s one of the better maintained of the fully-separated bike lanes too. Bikemore has a GIS map with labels for all the bike lanes in the city - as you can see, the corridor you’d be biking has a bunch of separated or buffered bike lanes, arguably the best in the city.

Baltimore had something like Bluebike for a bit but the vendor had a huge maintenance backlog and the city just cancelled it. Now we have a hodgepodge of dockless bikes and scooters; I believe it’s Spin, Bird, and Superpedestrian at the moment. (DC’s Capital Bikeshare is a great system, btw - some healthcare plans and employers in DC will subsidize membership, along with transit like Metro and MARC.)

You can bring bikes on the train.