@jemillerbalt
Baltimore has always been a car city. We'll drive 5 minutes to get where we're going. Not sure if that's going to change. The bike and scooter people sometimes act like they own the streets, and this can create hazardous situations.
Hey
@FOXBaltimore
, there are thousands of people congregating around Camden and Eutaw Streets right now and they are being very loud. Yesterday, there had to have been like 37,000 people there for a couple hours. What is going on in Baltimore?! Can you check it out?
Crowd flowing into the lots now is increasingly angry. “I paid $1200 for these tickets. Shame on Baltimore,” yelled one woman as she hustled across the lot. Her husband stayed with their car in line to park.
2016 Under Armour: We're going to make our headquarters at Port Covington rival the downtown skyline.
2021 Under Armour: Yeah, we're just going to pave over most of it for surface parking like a suburban office park. Thanks for the TIF though!
New modern, well-designed wayfinding being implemented along
@wmata
Metrorail platforms—clearly inspired by excellent graphic work at
@MTA
. It’s lovely to see this progress.
Now… can we get some improvements to the 7000 series screens, which look like they’re from 2005?
A good reminder as any that he doesn’t have anything to do about what is going on with the reopening of the Port of Baltimore, but instead has been cosplaying as the governor since he left office.
Today’s milestone of moving the Dali from the collapse site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge means our Port of Baltimore is one step closer to being fully reopened. Thank you to all the local, state, and federal personnel who have worked around the clock over the past two months
Hogan is a clown. Under budget and ahead of schedule was just the construction of the bridge. It took 10 years between conception to completion of the Nice Bridge replacement. The proposal to do the same for the Key Bridge replacement would be FOUR YEARS.
Just so it is clear to everyone: this is a ballot initiative that will inevitably reduce the political capital of city voters by cutting their elected representatives by half; bankrolled by people who don’t live in Baltimore City.
NEW: Sinclair Broadcast Group chairman David Smith's latest political venture - a ballot question that would cut the size of the Baltimore City Council in half - has 25,000+ signatures, all but certainly securing it a place on the ballot this fall
I follow a bunch of Facebook groups that post old pictures of Baltimore because I like the city’s history, but WHOA BOY, the comments sections are something else.
Maryland will happily sign over $1.2 billion for the Orioles and Ravens stadiums but when it comes to funding public transportation and road maintenance (by all means cut highway expansion) they’re fresh out of money. 🙃
In the not too distant future, Baltimore Penn Station is going to have high level boarding at 3 island platforms and 1 side platform for Amtrak and MARC.
while they have been building one more lane on 95 in Harford County there has been an accident every other week that shuts down the whole damn interstate. this is definitely the best way to get people to and from places. one more lane bro.
Reconfiguring Pratt/Light would be the single best improvement to the Inner Harbor, all other changes aside. However, opponents are going to try to knee cap this so they can drive their cars as quickly as possible across the harbor, everyone else be damned.
City Council hearings begin today on Harborplace redevelopment plan.
Opponents also want no changes to the Pratt/Light multi traffic lane configuration that blocks easy, safe access to the harbor
How, exactly, is developing a mostly empty shopping center surrounded by surface parking lots into something better constitute destroying the historic neighborhood of Lutherville?
Despite a substantial police presence in Fells Point last night, Fox45 News cameras did not capture any significant crowd gatherings, altercations, or instances of gun violence.
Just a reminder that there has been a a hole at the corner of Charles and Baltimore streets where the Mechanic Theatre used to be since 2014. A prime spot on top of metro station in downtown Baltimore sitting empty for nearly 9 years! What an embarrassment.
I’m still trying to process this. There were vehicles and apparently construction crews on the bridge when it collapsed and they all plunged into the harbor. The whole Port of Baltimore is blocked, ships can’t get in or out now. Just wild.
Mount Royal Station is one of my favorite buildings in the city. Opened in 1896, the B&O Railroad ceased passenger operations there in 1961. In the steam age, electric locomotives were coupled to trains while stopped at the station to move them through the Howard Street Tunnel.
Love seeing that the former Bernheimer department store (302 W. Fayette Street) is getting another life as apartments. Absolutely stunning building. It’s across the street from Everyman Theatre and around the corner from the Hippodrome and Lexington Market.
If your downtown still has many wide fast one-way streets, then your priority is to move cars quickly thru the downtown. It’s NOT to create a vibrant downtown, help downtown retailers, keep people safe, support walkability & accessibility, reduce pollution, etc.
#TrafficSewers
It would be a huge disappointment if the Red Line were revived as BRT. Too much time, effort, and money was put into the original Red Line light rail proposal (which would have been opened by now had Hogan not cancelled it) that it should be built as promised.
Breaking: Md. Gov, Wes Moore is relaunching a costly transit line for Baltimore whose cancellation became a symbol of neglect.
But questions remain:
Will it be light rail or buses?
Will the feds pay for it?
Can Md pay for it?
Can it afford not to?
I like that instead of a big Christmas tree we light up the Washington Monument, and we have a big weekly farmers market everyone loves under a highway everyone loves to hate.
This one's for all Baltimoreans. Why Baltimore? What keeps you here? What do you like about the city?
(We have enough negative narratives so I want to focus on the positive.)
Trolley Tuesday, elevated edition:
The Guilford Avenue elevated ran for 8 blocks from Chase St and ending just after Saratoga St. It opened in 1893 and was demolished in 1950. The elevated was built to allow streetcars to cross over the NCR and WM rail tracks.
This is the kind of stuff that causes death spirals in transit usage, which means that people who rely on transit lose out the most and have even fewer options now. “Why does everyone drive in the suburbs?” Because we slash funding for local routes and then run poorer service.
This reduction includes the complete elimination of all 36 MTA commuter bus routes, a reduction in MARC Brunswick Line service to West Virginia, and a 40% reduction in state funds to Locally Operated Transit Systems across the state.
With a major portion of the beltway out of commission for the next several years, it’s probably a good time to make your voices heard to keep Commuter Bus service.
MDOT MTA is also seeking to propose service changes affecting 34 Commuter Bus Routes that would become effective on Monday, July 1, 2024.
The proposed service changes would discontinue service of the following eight routes:
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I think we know a thing or two about the Star Spangled Banner and the enduring pride we take in the moment the song commemorates with the successful defense of Fort McHenry and our city.
They didn’t write the song about DC because, well ya know:
I've never heard the Orioles fans so quiet after they disrespected the Star Spangled Banner by yelling Oh. After that, the orange people went silent. What a beautiful thing.
My hot take here is that McKeldin Plaza is, at its simplest, a traffic island. It would be better a public space for it to be connected to, instead of permanently cutoff from, the rest of the Inner Harbor because folks are nostalgic for 1980s Harborplace.
The family of former mayor and governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin has asked Baltimore’s preservation commission to designate McKeldin Square a city landmark, an action that could potentially complicate MCB Real Estate’s plans to revitalize Harborplace.
This is a cool project for both the Pratt Library and Pigtown. There should be more library branches that are incorporated into larger residential and mixed-use buildings.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library wants to create a concept that has many uses and is "not a space that is a repository for books," an architect for the project said.
Light rail service is back, Baltimore! This is the second train to come through since 5am this morning. Sound off if you’re glad to have it back!
@wbaltv11
It’s wild that the Natural History Society of Maryland operates out of a nondescript windowless building on Belair Road in Overlea. They used to have a museum in Druid Hill Park from the 1930s-1970s.
This is akin to Larry Hogan cancelling the Red Line. If the governor can’t just snap their finger to bring a project into existence whenever they want, they shouldn’t be able to cancel a project single-handedly.
Feels like today reveals the hollowness of the American planning process, when after years of studies, public consultations, and coordination among any number of federal, state, and local bodies, one politician can change their mind at the last minute and suddenly back to zero.
The Charles Street Promenade will return on Saturday June 3, giving pedestrians a chance to take over Charles Street temporarily so they can shop, dine or just explore without worrying about car traffic.