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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

2 years

Why would you do this to yourself

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2 years

If the hood is too tall on your truck to see a 6 foot tall man in a crosswalk, it shouldn't be allowed on the road. A week ago this intersection would have allowed the truck to turn at 4x this speed, and this man would be dead instead of walking away unharmed.

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5 years

Food retailers should be forced to accept SNAP, thanks for coming to my talk.

The Baltimore Sun

@baltimoresun

5 years

Op-ed: Just as food retailers aren't forced to accept SNAP, landlords should be able to decide for themselves whether to make a government program part of their business model, a real estate executive writes.

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3 years

I'm 6 feet tall and there's no reason this truck should exist in a city, or really at all.

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2 years

That intersection I tweeted where the pickup truck hit that guy a while back? Much safer now thanks to GRIA, @grahamprojects and @BmoreCityDOT .

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2 years

@ChrisAtheos The truck and anyone who does this is in fact a joke.

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@jedweeks

1 year

If you have these signs in your yard, you are a bad person. Nobody should listen to your opinions.

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@jedweeks

10 months

It's an utter failure that these pools are closed and there aren't safe routes for kids to bike and walk to other open park pools. But also, filming these kids just trying to stay cool from a $2 million helicopter with ~$500k a year in operating costs is weird and bad.

WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5

@wbalradio

10 months

Several children were caught breaking into one of the many Baltimore City pools that remain closed with their gates chained. The break-in was caught on Monday. Footage details the children breaking in, setting up "camp", and entering the water along with a scooter.

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4 years

Seoul has 2 COVID-19 deaths. Baltimore has 31. Seoul is 500% denser than Baltimore. This is an absurdly wrong take that would only accelerate the climate disaster that is a root cause of pandemic.

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1 year

Shared to @bikemorebmore , a reckless driver managed to get themselves well up the Jones Falls Trail boardwalk. Hopefully this wonderful new recreational asset wasn't structurally damaged.

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@jedweeks

1 year

Woke up this morning thinking about the recent meeting where our soon-departing bike planner opened with a shared values statement saying "we all want all users of the road to be safe right?" and someone called out "nah we don't want bikers to feel safe" to applause.

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5 months

Happy traffic calming Fox Street. If the city won't, someone will.

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6 years

Baltimore: Streets must be 26 feet clear width or the city will burn! Philadelphia:

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6 years

@nancook This person has apparently never heard of all boys private schools.

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@jedweeks

5 months

Dang. Tell that to these 7 folks I came across in just a couple blocks biking and scooting home from work tonight in 30 degree weather while only 3 cars go by in the same timeframe.

Juice GG™

@LOBjuice

5 months

BikeMore is pointless system. We do not need bike lanes!! We cant get fixed roads but we got bike lanes!!!! Nobody use them!! Nobody go buys food with a bike, nobody uses a bike to go to work. This traffic IS CRAZY & at all time high!! @MayorBMScott @jedweeks #DefundBikeLanes

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2 years

Some folks shouldn't drive.

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3 years

@jrking215 People comment about how well the developer repurposed this "old warehouse" next to me so I think you're onto something.

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2 years

Baltimore's Central Avenue (currently being repaved ~90 feet wide) instead with a daylighted stream, as rendered by Dall·E

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@jedweeks

3 years

Imagine being able to walk from Lake Montebello to Leakin Park under the shade of trees, safe from speeding cars. Some folks *really, really* hate this idea, and are doing everything they can imagine to stop it from happening.

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3 years

How it started How it's going

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@jedweeks

10 months

If I was full narcissist and had $44b I'd simply build a full metro system for Baltimore and donate the rest to a UBI scheme, and have hundreds of years of positive legacy instead of being a weird fascist creep owning a broken web platform where idiots like me say shit like this.

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2 years

Mugged in station north and I told the dude with the gun I wanted my wallet back so I didn't lose my ID and he gave it back with the ID and said "Happy Valentine's Day" (it was indeed Valentine's day).

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6 years

@taureanb @TempePolice Nearly 2 miles between crosswalks, that's why. Street was designed to kill pedestrians.

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@jedweeks

6 years

Seville, a city comparable in population to Baltimore, built 80km of separated bike infrastructure in 1.5 years. They removed 6,000 parking spaces in the process.

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@jedweeks

4 years

This has been an open secret for years, and when people like me asked the journalists covering Hogan for the region's major papers to investigate it we were called "trolls." I'm glad someone finally wrote it up.

Washington Monthly

@monthly

4 years

A real estate developer wins executive office. He then maintains an active interest in his business, putting his family in charge, and carries out policies to boost his profits. Sounds like Donald Trump, right? Turns out, it's Larry Hogan.

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@jedweeks

6 years

This so called @GovLarryHogan Baltimore HQ is so abandoned there are @BenJealous posters on the door. What a joke.

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@jedweeks

8 months

People love "nobody uses the bike lanes" anecdotes as a reason to remove them. Tonight I crossed one of the busiest intersections in Remington. 30 seconds, no cars, 2 bikes. I'm assuming there will be no calls to remove these roads. Maybe we can stop with bad faith arguments.

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@jedweeks

6 months

Cars Ruin Everything Around Me

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@jedweeks

8 months

$2 billion could: 👩‍🦽 make every street ADA accessible 🚦upgrade/re-time every traffic light 🌉 repair every failing bridge 🚗 repave every street in need 🚲 build the entire bike network And we'd still have $500m left over to use as federal match $ for another transit line.

Baltimore Sun Sports

@BaltSunSports

8 months

The $1.2 billion for stadium improvements, which will likely cost the state more than $2 billion after interest, is an unparalleled infusion of taxpayer money into Baltimore.

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2 years

A reminder that the poorest families in Baltimore, a whole 1/3 of our city and a majority of renters, will not feel this relief. They ride the bus, and the fares *increase* in July.

President Biden

@POTUS

2 years

I understand that a gas tax holiday alone won’t fix the pain Americans are feeling at the pump. But it will provide families some immediate relief – what my dad would call, "just a little bit of breathing room.”

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@jedweeks

11 months

Nearly a billion for brand new highways the next 3 years and $0 for new transit despite the former being proven to do nothing but worsen congestion and destroy the plant but you're injecting "costly"

Erin Cox

@ErinatThePost

11 months

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?

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1 year

Even a modern gas leaf blower puts out more hydrocarbons in an hour than a F150 cross country drive. Over 800 Baltimoreans die from complications of emissions related diseases annually. Kids routinely miss school because of Asthma. This is an extremely bad take, TJ.

T.J. Smith

@TJSmithSocial

1 year

“We should be making everyone move in the direction of something quieter” ~ @ElectRyanDorsey on banning gas powered leaf blowers. I watched three times. Yes, banning gas powered leaf blowers because they’re too loud and environmentally unsafe.

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@jedweeks

1 month

I honestly can't thing of a thing this man did that didn't result in later destruction.

David Sirota

@davidsirota

1 month

🚨NEW REPORT: As governor, @LarryHogan pressed for ever-larger cargo ships in Baltimore's port - despite safety warnings from an insurance giant & marine experts. Hogan said port expansion for megaships would improve safety. He's now running for Senate.

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2 years

@nougatmachine @WarrenJWells Imo this does it

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@jedweeks

1 year

This simply can't be done according to a very vocal, small group of Baltimoreans.

Mike Lydon

@MikeLydon

1 year

Now, this is a greenway. 📍 Baton Rouge

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@jedweeks

8 months

Nobody uses the bike lanes

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@jedweeks

4 years

Oh my god just fund Amtrak and MARC already. Build the B&P tunnel replacement, undo Hogan's walk back of the MARC Growth and Investment Plan, and we'll be able to get to DC nearly as fast as the maglev at a price real humans can afford.

Colin Campbell

@cmcampbell6

4 years

New: The federal government has “paused” its environmental assessment of the proposed $10 billion high-speed @NortheastMaglev train route between Baltimore and Washington. Details:

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2 years

Can out of state vacant property owners who break city code and law over a decade be held criminally responsible for the injury or death of firefighters who work their asses off saving lives in this town? Because they should be.

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4 months

I knew it was gonna be bad but I didn't have Smith saying it's unfortunate you can't shoot City Schools employees on my bingo card.

The Baltimore Banner

@BaltimoreBanner

4 months

New Baltimore Sun owner insults staff in meeting, says paper should mimic Fox45

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4 years

Finally got around to marrying @WynnEnglePratt today.

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@jedweeks

7 months

Baltimore could have what Atlanta has below if we implemented the Baltimore Greenway Trails Network.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

@modacitylife

7 months

We followed this young girl for many miles on Atlanta’s Beltline today. Her father was happy to sit back and let her spread her wings; allowing her to savor the taste of freedom that accompanies biking without fear of motor traffic. Our job is to make this a reality everywhere.

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3 years

Do not have a child so maybe I missed this, but why do the school police have a very large, brand new fleet of SUVs instead of that money being spent on, idk, schooling??

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@jedweeks

8 months

Can't underestimate how good it feels to have a separated route all the way to the park.

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@jedweeks

2 years

. @BmoreCityDOT experimenting with NYC style turn calming (20% reduction in pedestrian injuries where implemented there). This install at 29th and Huntingdon formalizes a guerilla turn calming treatment installed here by a mystery person early in the pandemic. Honkin' slow 🎉

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@jedweeks

4 years

It's always been crazy to me that our city's answer to "we could easily make this a UNESCO World Heritage Site, why not apply" has been "because we want to park on it."

Matthew Kurlanski

@eatourpeas

4 years

Why is Fells Point open to car traffic? The narrow sidewalks allow for no social distancing, lots of biz open for take out, why not close it to cars and create a safer more welcoming space?

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4 years

Can I just say how refreshing it is to have a soon-to-be mayor join your community association call and talk extremely competently and compassionately off the cuff about an incredibly wide variety of challenging issues while also chasing his cat...

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@jedweeks

1 year

This is the 3rd crash in 3 days in 3 blocks of 28th Street, a road that was supposed to have a community association grant-funded lane reduction installed in March. The grant? We are about to lose it for lack of @BmoreCityDOT action. The crashes? They continue.

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@jedweeks

3 years

Wonder if any local celebrities are gonna tweet about the grubhub bicyclist just hit by a driver in Remington who fled the scene. Mother of his kids had his mangled bike in the back of a borrowed car, scared crying kids in the back. He and his bike the source of their income.

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@jedweeks

1 year

Let's also make historic investments in transit, make ebikes cheaper, and give people who reduce car ownership or are car free a tax credit.

Governor Wes Moore

@GovWesMoore

1 year

We are accelerating the transition to clean cars to meet our climate goals. But we need to make sure that in the clean car revolution, no one is left behind. That’s why we’re going to make it cheaper to buy electric in the state of Maryland.

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@jedweeks

4 years

Literally a life-saving change.

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@jedweeks

2 years

@FOP3 @BaltimorePolice @MayorBMScott @baltimoresun @wjz @wbaltv11 @wbalradio @WMAR2News @FOXBaltimore @GovLarryHogan Can you share the total Baltimore Police budget for each of the past five years to help me understand how Baltimore politicians have "defunded the police in a now obvious way?"

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5 months

Closing a park to people so it can be open to cars sucks. What sucks more? It costs a family *more* to attend the single bike or walk nights. A full car is $12.51 entry. If my wife, son, and I ride bikes on bike night? $12.51 each. Walk on family night? $23.18 total.

Baltimore Rec & Parks

@RecNParks

5 months

#BCRPAlerts (12/4): Beginning tonight, Monday, 12/4, and running thru Monday, 1/1/24, Druid Hill Park will close nightly at 5PM — including weekends and holidays — due to Charm City Lights. Vehicles must vacate the park by 3PM, as cars will begin to be towed at that time.

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2 years

Cars Ruin Everything Around Me

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2 years

Finance bros that "live in Baltimore" stop talking about the dangers of public transit they've literally never ridden challenge

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@jedweeks

9 months

In this piece, Baltimore blames the pandemic for slowing infrastructure. In the time Baltimore built 7.5 miles: Pittsburgh built 50 Providence built 43 New Orleans built 27 Each of these cities will build more in 2023 than Baltimore has built total from 2017-Present.

Bikemore

@bikemorebmore

9 months

A good summary from @BaltimoreBanner 's @ZawodnyDaniel of how far Baltimore has fallen behind on building out its own adopted bike plans, featuring our ED @jedweeks and Black People Ride Bikes's @spittsmcman .

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8 months

Streets should not be designed for two hours of cars, but the remaining 22 hours of community.

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3 years

This you buddy?

Larry Hogan

@LarryHogan

3 years

Trying to reduce crime by defunding the police is dangerous, radical, far-left lunacy. Thinking that you can improve law enforcement by defunding the police is like saying that you want to improve education by defunding our schools. It’s absurd and ridiculous.

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1 year

I'll buy a beer for the first person that finds and photographs these signs next to a "in this house we believe" or BLM sign.

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@jedweeks

1 year

If you have these signs in your yard, you are a bad person. Nobody should listen to your opinions.

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@jedweeks

1 year

Every driver going 5x the speed limit in Baltimore City and crashing into houses and killing people has expired Virginia plates that we can't do anything about because Virginia refuses reciprocity, change my mind.

VDOT Northern VA

@VaDOTNOVA

1 year

I'm convinced this is true. Make me proud tonight, #NOVA .

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1 year

For those tuning in from outside of Baltimore, this is how this trail is supposed to be enjoyed:

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@jedweeks

8 months

The common refrain I hear on this stuff is that we can't do anything because it could harm the offending person that is likely poor that owns the car. The thing is they're also *hitting and disabling other poor peoples' cars* and destroying their lives. What's the solution?

Smoking on that shit

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Love this problem just growing and growing while everyone with any power to do anything about it is in complete denial because it might require doing something outside their job description

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3 years

Today a driver hit an 8 year old on a small neighborhood street in Edmonson Village. The scanner description was "Medic needed ASAP, he's pretty bloody." People need to slow the eff down on neighborhood streets and the city needs to do everything in their power to force them to.

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@jedweeks

3 years

The best thing to happen on Saint Paul Street in Charles Village is gone, returned to cars.

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@jedweeks

3 years

Legally crossing the street on a trail in a crosswalk is now "went into the westbound lane...and collided with the front of the vehicle." Seriously, what the fuck is this reporting. Do better @wjz .

WJZ | CBS Baltimore

@wjz

3 years

A bicyclist has died after colliding with the front of a car in Baltimore County earlier Tuesday, police say.

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@jedweeks

1 year

"Trying to cross the JFX" = using the marked crosswalk at Fayette Street? If so, it should be reported as such. If not it should be made a lot more clear.

Sun Latest News

@BaltSunBrk

1 year

61-year-old woman trying to cross JFX is killed in hit-and-run, Baltimore police say

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@jedweeks

2 years

Lol there are people actively arguing on Nextdoor right now that calling Bikemore advocacy "terrorism" isn't hyperbole and that we are subverting democracy, destroying the social order, and violently holding drivers hostage by...expanding city trails.

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@jedweeks

5 years

Guy at the bar who just moved to Baltimore from Oakland: "What the fuck, I got here and saw this Roland thing. Why the hell is Baltimore ripping out bike lanes? That's the opposite of what cities do."

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@jedweeks

10 months

Lotta unpermitted events because police deny the permits or extort communities into insane fees for them to be present. Couldn't have a permit for a children's Halloween parade in Remington because they black out Halloween and simply say no events period.

Julie Scharper

@Juliemore

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“Baltimore’s acting police commissioner made a surprising admission on Monday, calling his department’s lack of presence at a large weekend gathering … in which 30 people were shot — two of them fatally — an intelligence failure.” By @conarck

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

2 years

Surely this and the 3rd Bay Bridge crossing have nothing to do with the multiple Hogan Companies exclusively brokered properties along the very same corridor.

Governor Larry Hogan

@GovLarryHogan

2 years

At my direction, we are providing $15 million to accelerate the planning phase and to move MD 90 improvements ahead into the design phase, which is an important and critical step closer to making this a shovel-ready project. Details:

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1 year

My job means I take way too many calls about people being doored or struck by drivers. Today the call ended up being my wife who was doored. Second time she's been hit this year. First was an intentional hit by a driver during bike party.

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6 years

Hi! It's a beautiful Friday and creating safe, accessible routes for people to get around our city is a wonderful thing. That's why we do the work we do. Go check out #BigJumpBaltimore this weekend. Thank you @bmorecitydot @leonfpinkett and @peopleforbikes .

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4 years

Someone spray paints FOPenis on the lodge wall and now there's riot fencing closing a whole block surrounded by parked dump trucks like the terrorists would be coming from outside that building, when the reality is they come from within.

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@jedweeks

6 years

The newly restored Preston Gardens was nice while it lasted. Cars Ruin Everything Around Me.

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@jedweeks

9 months

Baltimoreans want safer streets. They want more reliable transit options. They elected a mayor and city council members who promised this. That's why thousands of citywide robocalls, unsolicited bulk emails, and months of ground organizing only yielded ~15 rally attendees.

Bikemore

@bikemorebmore

9 months

If North Ave isn't the "right place" for bus infrastructure, nowhere is. If 70+ community meetings, a 25 person resident advisory group, and thousands of street interviews isn't "sufficient outreach" for a painted bus lane, nothing is. This is a "Change Nothing" platform.

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2 years

This appeared on my block, across from my house, the first day of 2022. And I actually didn't put it there myself. Luv 2 see it.

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@jedweeks

4 years

"Fuck You Gentrifier" - someone who has no doubt lived here for less time than the immigrant-owned business they are tagging has been here.

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@jedweeks

5 years

It's so weird that our city celebrates knocking down houses (in ways that spread toxic dust no less). This should be a solemn acknowledgement of government failures, not a press event for the mayor to be proud of.

Yvonne Wenger

@yvonnewenger

5 years

. @MayorPugh50 takes the first swing of the excavator to bring down this block of vacant houses on Baker Street:

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Jed Weeks

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4 years

@DavidBosen1 @baltimoresun It was lightning, so I guess God?

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@jedweeks

11 months

On another meeting where someone said "there's no consideration for drivers in Baltimore, it's so frustrating with all the separated bike lanes going up." Under 1% of our street network has separated bike lanes, and that's apparently tipping the balance too far.

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@jedweeks

4 years

@jemillerwbal Noticeably absent: officers in riot gear, national guard vehicles.

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@jedweeks

5 months

We're at a point where the road diet on 28th Street has *improved* traffic operations for cars. We'll see if that lasts, but at present there's no longer an argument it inconveniences law abiding drivers. I hope that data revises the opinions of folks like @SheilaDixonBalt .

Bikemore

@bikemorebmore

5 months

Another month of 28th Street traffic data is in. Dangerous speeding is down 96.5%. Congestion is trending down, 3.8% *improved* vs pre-install. 🏎️>43mph🏎️ Pre-install: 13.57% Sep: 0.99% Oct: 0.79% Nov: 0.47% 🚙<18mph🚙 Pre-install: 83.79% Sep: 87.66% Oct: 86.24% Nov: 80.54%

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@jedweeks

11 months

We'll have the slight update to the environmental impact statement of a critical east-west transit line for Baltimore in three years, and can then determine next steps.

Justin George

@justingeorge

11 months

Stunning news- Collapsed stretch of I-95 to reopen within 2 weeks, Pennsylvania governor says. Initial projection was months, even up to 6 months.

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6 years

@JCphoto2 @taureanb @TempePolice Sure. Doesn't change that it's the only one for nearly 2 miles. Street was designed with peds as an afterthought and a fatal crash is the result.

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@jedweeks

3 years

@nytimes Now do cars

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@jedweeks

3 years

The Baltimore Paranormal Department took care of our street closures since the other BPD wouldn't.

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@jedweeks

2 years

A reminder on this day where Chris Jensen's home has yet again been struck by a driver: GRIA has a 2021 state grant to pay for a road diet on 28th Street, awarded with a letter of support from @BmoreCityDOT , that they have simply not installed. We may lose the money.

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@jedweeks

2 years

The haters try to use emergency access as an argument against complete streets but it turns out emergency vehicles can get places faster without hundreds of cars in the way. Locally in Baltimore I see this when ambulances use the protected bike lane in front of our office.

Shabazz Stuart

@ShabazzStuart

2 years

One added benefit of SBS & bus priority streetscape redesigns… faster emergency services

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

4 years

Insanely close election that would be a blowout with ranked choice or top two.

Ben Groff

@BenjaminGroff

4 years

After tonight's data update, Scott has cut Dixon's lead to 1,871 votes (it was 3623) after 22,000 ballots counted today. If the trend continues, Brandon would take the lead towards the end of VBM ballot counting and the race would be decided by the provisional ballots.

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

1 year

Everywhere. Lake Montebello pedestrian usage increased 283% and bike usage 60% after closure to cars. A majority of residents from adjacent communities we've spoken to at Mobile Bike Shop there, including CHM, also support the Greenway on 33rd. All news is about opposition.

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

4 years

Lol at Baltimoreans claiming our city can never be bikeable because it gets cold a few weeks in the winter, meanwhile an entire country to our north is tweeting this.

Canada

@Canada

4 years

DYK that 30-40% of cyclists in Canada bike year-round? These numbers continue to increase across the country as more and more snow-cleared bike lanes appear in major cities. Have you tried or thought of trying #WinterBiking ? ❄️🚲 #MotivationMonday

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

5 years

In short, I'm fucking pissed that my neighbors are getting hit and injured on dangerous streets when there's money to fix them. DOT can sure get their act together in a heartbeat to rip out a protected bike lane in Roland Park, but making a street safer seems impossible. (6/6)

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

1 month

67% increase just in bike/scooter share use on Baltimore's 28th Street facility this March vs. pre-install last March.

Action Committee for Transit

@actfortransit

1 month

Hey guess what? Better bike lanes in cities increase bicycle use and decrease car use!

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

2 months

A *Baltimore Sun reader poll* trending this way 😂

Baltimore City DOT

@BmoreCityDOT

2 months

Baltimore Sun: Bike lanes now extend to many Baltimore neighborhoods. And there are plans for more. Do you support the city’s bike lane effort?

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

1 year

Of course there's great irony here. Baltimore is one of the great birthplaces of American bicycling, and Eutaw Place is central to that history. Let's go back to the late 1890s, before cars ruled Eutaw, and see what was there:

Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

1 year

Today I learned a new 501(c)(3) special interest group has been formed: The Eutaw Place Conservancy. Its goal is to preserve, maintain, and beautify historic Eutaw Place by opposing bike lanes and advocating the city not listen to special interest groups.

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

1 year

Hampden: a very healthy place where business owners propose demolishing buildings 150 feet off of The Avenue for surface parking.

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

2 years

If the city keeps letting people drive through Druid Hill Park at 40-50mph on incredibly busy weekends, nearly hitting families and other cars, there *will* be a conflict that escalates and someone *will* get hurt or killed. Unconscionable they're doing nothing to address it.

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

4 years

Wild that a car did this all by itself

WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore

@wbaltv11

4 years

Car crashes into SoBo Cafe's parklet, leaves scene

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

5 years

Lets Baltimore and DC Metros collapse, cuts bus orders, cancels Red Line, lets MARC begin to collapse, invests billions in roads. "Why are people driving?"

Adam Tuss

@AdamTuss

5 years

Md Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn - for years we have thought people were going to get tired of traffic and move to transit. But it hasn’t happened. @nbcwashington

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

10 months

The Eutaw Place bike lane is apparently going through another round of community input this summer/fall for a "consensus design" for tentative summer 2024 construction. The current design, funded for installation this summer, has gone through community input since ~2016.

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Jed Weeks

@jedweeks

10 months

A man just came into the bar to report to the bartender some kids wandering Sisson Street with guns. He was exasperated because he tried to report it to passing police who said "what do you want us to do about it?" and drove off.

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