Speed cameras are separate. I'm referring to the red light camera heading eastbound near the 95 on ramp.

I will say that the one on Pulaski Highway heading Eastbound doesn't work for shit - based on watching two cars run it last night without it flashing once.

Low bar to clear.

"No, no, no. Listen. Users in /r/baltimore just unreasonably dislike Hogan. He's never done anything bad and has been great for the state." ^^/s

That's in the water, not the air.

Rookie mistake.

(I know: I struggle to keep up with their stupidity too.)

> I'm thinking we'll get 5.5 inches on February 19th.

Hold up. You ain't Frankie.

Fair.

I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a joke meant to be commentary on where Uber drivers don’t go?

But not in the crosswalk.

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> the howard street stretch connects those two chunks, and could be a lot nicer.

One possibility: Howard Street should be closed to North/South vehicular traffic between MLK and Pratt Street - allowing only light rail and pedestrian traffic. Allow the existing East/West traffic to persist, and convert the now no longer needed for vehicular traffic area to green space.

Just a thought for consideration.

> The mayor said he's seeking $20 million in state aid to help the Baltimore Police Department improve and modernize, $50 million to design and construct two new police districts in northwest and northeast Baltimore...

Can't wait for yet another year of seeing/hearing Harford County and out-of-state clowns continue to talk about how "this is what happens when you defund the police" despite literally the opposite happening.

> ...and $100 million to address vacant properties and eliminate blight. > > He admitted it's an ambitious agenda but said he's optimistic with the incoming leadership across state government in Democrats from Baltimore, including Gov.-elect Wes Moore.

...show the plan?

In this context, I was loosely referring to the user that you replied to whilst also speaking generically. You yourself are not who I was referring to.

Always has been.

> Not DA, USAO

Sometimes, I read these threads and wonder how many of them live even remotely in the region given that they seem to be ready to comment on who does what in a given area while getting the basic facts wrong.

In /r/Baltimore, as an example, there was guy who was saying that the crime was the fault of the Mayor because he is apparently too afraid to fire the District Attorney.

Note that Baltimore has a States Attorney and it's an elected position over which the Office of the Mayor has precisely zero control.

Here, we have a user who doesn't even know which party is responsible for undertaking in the act of criminal prosecutions in the District. Likewise, between 3 different city subreddits I actively participate in, and the way it frequently pops up in other subreddits, the number of times I see the "tHe DA dOeSn'T pRoSeCuTe CrImInAlS" trope is hilarious - especially after what happened in San Francisco. ^^^^[archived]

In other cases, it becomes blatantly obvious when the right-wing "let police do their jobs" crowd that doesn't live in a city comes in to a thread.

Case in point: In /r/LosAngeles, during the run up to the General Election, a user who claimed to be resident of 2 years who had apparently moved from Chicago (lmao, sure) spoke about how Los Angeles has gotten worse under the leadership of Karen Bass... who - up until she took office as the newly elected Mayor of Los Angeles two weeks ago - had never held elected office in the City of Los Angeles.

> Well yea but we only get a 10 min break. Still was able to finish though.

Finished in 10 minutes? Well done.

Fake Temp Tags from Texas go brrrttttt...

>Proper timing does not require synchronization. The situation could be drastically improved by a citywide overhaul to add sensors to non-priority streets. In the short-term, simply adjust timers to give those streets ten seconds every minute (or something along those lines).

Absolutely.

Hell, in the intermediary, a significant improvement would be to also shift some intersections from controlled signals to flashing red and yellow lights in the late night hours (2:30 - 5 AM).

Also, we need some traffic circles (roundabouts) in this region -- but done properly, unlike that dangerous joke of one in Charles Village.

>The problem isn't bad synchronization, it's that you have to sit at a red light for 30 or more seconds with no opposing traffic.

"30 Seconds"

* Laughs in Sinclair Lane *

There's that and taking literally 10 minutes to take Lombard from President to MLK at 3AM without a single other car on the road if you catch so much as one red light because you'll be sitting at a red light in - without exaggeration - every signal thereafter.

We've likewise all seen the hell scape that Downtown becomes during the day - though nothing is fixing that short of reducing demand -- aka: rail. If only there was a fully studied, fully funded rail line that ran East / West and could reduce demand by providing an incentive for others to park in the I-70 park and ride, and commute in from there. Perhaps we could even color it red.

I hate to say it because I've talked about the lack of enforcement of traffic laws and vehicle codes here for years (and I maintain that photo enforcement is not a solution), but this city's infrastructure passively encourages bad behavior.

Correction: to thousands of cars - many of which were robo-signed using the electronic signature of a literally dead BPD cop.

> Orpheus

RIP Orpheus but damn their management and the promoters there sucked (which is a big part of what led to its downfall).

> This seems to be missed on this thread what they are often just a placeholder until local market conditions change

In Woodlawn, on Security Blvd., when Best Buy closed up shop in 2016, there was talks about seeing what else could replace it. A storage facility moved in. It has been there ever since.

In Owings Mills, there used to be a Giant in Newtown. It closed and moved to where the Mall used to be - across from the (then new) Costco. The site has sat empty since with residents in that area asking for something like a Lidl (which I believe did recently open up in Reisterstown). Last I knew, a storage facility was slated to move in there as well, but was being blocked by residents.

In Cockeysville... well... we're in this thread aren't we?

I used to say this at work when someone proposed something temporary: "Temporary measures have a bad habit of becoming permanent fixtures around here."

> Genuinely unsure what foxtrot is.

This is "Foxtrot": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baltimore_Police_helo_MD1.jpg