100% of the discourse surrounding gentrification is completely unproductive and like it was shown in DC, Denver, Detroit, New York, Atlanta, and almost every other city in the US, “gentrifying” areas is a genuine net positive because it’s a made up word that, in reality, represents accessible housing, safe neighborhoods, public parks and public services, robust public transit, thriving small businesses, wealth generation, and collaborative business that raises GDP.

Gentrification is NIMBY code. The transformations that have happened in DC’s Navy Yard/SE, Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, and others, representing double-digit BILLIONS of dollars worth of investment, touches every part of the city and is an immense net positive.

People complaining about gentrification would prefer those places remain weed-filled cracked parking lots and piles of wind-strewn trash caught up against abandoned and condemned buildings in what is literally a wasteland.

Don’t let NIMBYs fool YOU.

Baltimore doesn’t have the institutional knowledge nor the resources to build “GOOD transit”, let alone transit at all.

The only way they’re going to get a metro line out to HoCo and other nimby enclaves is if they build out significant metro connections within the city and a decade of growth leaves HoCo behind (the same way DC left Baltimore behind), then they’ll be clamoring for it.

As it stands now, from the perspective of a HoCo NIMBY, a metro line has zero positive impact on them because very VERY few of them need to commute into Baltimore for any reason, especially now, and have a severe negative potential impact of introducing crime into their cute little towns. This is a stupid concern, IMO, but it will be almost insurmountable. No one in HoCo wants a metro connection to Baltimore. That’s it. Also, anyone from HoCo that does commute from Baltimore is happy to drive and would not consider an alternative (and it’s hard to blame them for this ignorance as no alternative currently exists to compare it to).

Again, the solution is to build within Baltimore and within communities that want it, employ TOD and other yimby/StrongTowns style development to build wealth (which reduces crime and creates jobs/opportunities), and in a decade they will be begging for a metro line to get to where all the jobs are.

I run a 6 and a half minute mile 😈 car fatties got nothing on me

>give glowering looks and make them feel guilty

Brother this does not work. They don’t give a shit. They can kill you while watching tiktok on their phones and they won’t even be charged with manslaughter. And they know that.

Honestly worse than “whataboutism” is the redditor’s proclivity to say “that’s whataboutism” whenever someone confronts them with their own argument.

Damn wait til you hear about how many people get killed by cars which this city insists on catering to far more than ebikes