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TerranceBaggz t1_ixd3ybd wrote

Reply to comment by MotoSlashSix in “Controversy emerges over changes to Baltimore’s Central Avenue streetscape as it nears completion” (Baltimore Sun) by moderndukes

More than half of our population doesn’t own cars. So no 578k people don’t have to deal with auto traffic. That’s the point, focusing on cars and putting them first over everything else is choosing to focus on the wealthiest citizen and more so county residents over city residents. You have to pick one. Building Stroads to get county folk to their downtown jobs as quickly as possible drastically decreases quality of life for the people who live in the neighborhoods that those roads go through (historically, these neighborhoods have been overwhelmingly poor and/or black.)

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MotoSlashSix t1_ixd9e55 wrote

First, please show me where I said to focus on cars and put them first over everything else?

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>(historically, these neighborhoods have been overwhelmingly poor and/or black.)

I live in a neighborhood near Central and Monument. My neighborhood's population is 87% black, the average home purchase price here is $55,000 and our median household income is below the median for the city. I kind of get it.

>More than half of our population doesn’t own cars. So no 578k people don’t have to deal with auto traffic.

I'm one of those people who doesn't own a car. The notion that we don't also have to deal with auto traffic is news to me. So you're telling me -- a pedestrian and public transit user 90% of the time and ride share user the other 10% -- doesn't have to deal with auto traffic on my commutes? Please tell me how that works because it sounds wonderful. I was unaware that when I'm walking I don't have to deal with auto traffic. When I ride the bus I don't have to deal with auto traffic? Please share how that works.

But I think you missed the point: Everyone who goes anywhere in this city has to deal with auto traffic -- whether they concern themselves with the murder rate or not. So, yeah, we get, it there were 300 murders in our city, that doesn't change the fact that the rest of us have to go on about our lives. The homicide rate is awful; the other 99.999% of us who are still alive can concern ourselves with the traffic we have to deal with every day while we also concern ourselves with violent crime.

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