Is there a coffee roaster nearby? Zeke's in Lauraville smells kinda like burnt popcorn and sometimes you can smell it for a mile.

They could contact their councilperson or delegates who likely can share the info with them.

What ended up happening with the Florida properties, anybody know? Do they still own them?

There is an entire FEIS and ROD with specific answers to their concerns, they just don't believe the data and think it's made up. More tests confirming the prior data they already refuse to believe won't change their minds.

Just building as many post conviction appellate issues IMO

Well also, there will be no freight in the new tunnel. These folks succeeded in opposing that so it will stay in the old, more dangerous tunnel with worse (ie no) ventilation systems that runs through the same poor communities. Big win all around /s.

Seconded. Brian is a great dude who does excellent work.

That's awesome!

Have you noticed that the protestors (so 4 of the 5 that make up this group) are actually white, generally wealthier Reservoir Hill residents?

Electrified. Hogan is responsible for the diesel conversion for cost savings because he doesn't care about kids' lungs. They'll go back to electric.

Electrified. Hogan is responsible for the diesel conversion for cost savings because he doesn't care about kids' lungs. They'll go back to electric.

While we are a shitshow, we are at least repairing things. The county has taken the approach of deferring all maintenance. Is this not a grab to share that additional maintenance burden cost with city residents?

Honestly, the public doesn't care about these communities because it's where the "criminals" mostly live. Also, since the area is notorious for unemployment and poverty (things I speak volumes on because it's all manufactured poverty to a once thriving neighborhood) the powers that be don't have a huge incentive to listen to or care about the neighborhood. They don't provide a large tax base, so they are unfortunately ignored in favor of more prominent communities. This is wrong on so many levels, but it's the unfortunate reality of West Baltimore.

I'm sure if places like Resovoir Hill weren't undergoing gentrification, we probably wouldn't even hear about these protests for too long.

>the interior finishes and condition appear to be comparable between the two houses, except for the kitchen, which is much nicer in the Neighbor Property

How much difference in the kitchen? This would be a MAJOR factor in value for me - more than equal SF for sure.

Does that mean that MARC is getting electrified? Or will they continue to use the old tunnel.

Level Up Games is also in Glen Burnie. Right next to the high school and down the street from Games & Stuff. There's a great Mexican restaurant next to it too

Also, Games and Stuff is right across the street from the Cromwell Light Rail station, so public transit is definitely accessible, Idk the schedule though

If you care it is not that hard to take an actual look. The information is pretty available via google.

I have had a number of things framed at JLP framing in Charles village. They have been really helpful with ideas and recommendations and everything they've done for me has been beautiful.

https://framingbaltimore.com/

To get to 2078 square feet you have 1750 sq feet above grade and 328 sq feet for a finished basement area. Based on the pictures in the listing this finished basement area is knotty pine walls/tile floor that was being used as a weight room. This 328 square feet is not as valuable as the above ground space in the other house. For reasons I do not understand, the sun room does not appear to be in the listing square feet. In the floor plans in the listing they give the sun room as 14 ft x 9' 7". This would be an addition 134 sq feet of space.

The house that the lawsuit is about is 2600 above grade and 940 sf finished basement. There are no photos of the finished basement in the previous listing, but it does say it has a jetted tub and could be a separate living space.

I generally agree with your analysis, but the size comparison should be 1864 sq ft (giving the sun room) to 2600 sq ft OR 2212 sq ft to 3540 sq ft.

They are poor! They got to withdraw money from their retirement early because they said they were “struggling” or whatever effing word they used. Didn’t they get free (not have to pay back) Covid-PPE loan too?

No one is dumb enough to fight the feds in court. Very few actually go to trial, think it is way less than 10%, probably less than 5% go to trial. Her fighting this is even more crazy.

Thanks so much! This is what I was looking for! (Just making sure I wasn't losing it.)

Yes, plenty of folks including myself have noticed the difference. It’s made my trip to and from work go from barely tolerable to incredibly convoluted, annoying, and honestly dangerous. Taking 295 to 695 to 95 to 395 is not the most calming way to go 8 miles.

Some insight from our neighborly DOT rep in this subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/10kis8f/did_they_change_the_timing_on_the_traffic_lights/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

TLDR: The lights are out of sync and they’re working on it, but time will tell if it’ll go back to normal anytime soon.

Plenty of good tips on this sub. Please feel free to search. If you have any specific questions after that, post them and someone will surely help you answer them.

>Also, most of those reasons could be removed if we focus on more bike lanes which would free up space for scooters as well. I think most pro-transit people would support that, yeah?

it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. the opposition to bike lanes comes largely from people thinking they're not worth being built unless they're filled with riders. most people don't think about it long enough to understand network effects, or that restricting car traffic is a good thing for livability and their slightly slower drive due to the driving lane being fully makes the city better and safer. so if you can inflate the number of people biking/scooting, it makes more pro-bike-lane people and reduces opposition.

I was actually saying in another thread a while back that if you took the budget for a single light rail line ($1-$2 billion), you could offer a voucher of $1k to anyone in the city for a bike/trike/ebike/etrike/scooter and still have enough money left over randomly give 1 in 25 people who are riding $1000 each month (each person can't win more than per year), and sustain that random lottery for somewhere between 2 and 10 years, depending on how many people take up biking in order to try to win that lottery. think about that; 1 in 25 people is VERY common. everyone would know at least 1 person who won that lottery and facebook/instagram would be FILLED with people celebrating that they won. you would pretty much entice everyone in the city to at least bike SOME of the time, but the more you bike the more likely you would be to win, so you may as well bike to work, bike to the store, bike when you're bored, etc. etc.. the result would be a MASSIVE demand for bike lanes and on streets without bike lanes, cars would be constantly driving near cyclists, so they would get used to having to watch out for them. by the time the lottery was finished, everyone would be used to riding and bike lanes would already be in place, so continued bike usage would be high. I think it would be absolutely transformative to an entire city, much more so than adding 1 light rail line.

but anyway, that's a pretty radical idea and might be hard to convince people to try. it would also be a massive and sudden change, which people hate. even sudden changes for the better are hated by many people.

edit: oops, hit submit too early, standby for the next paragraph

>What's the unpopular opinion?

to start, we have to understand the real-world costs of transportation modes (I'm using pre pandemic data, bus LRT costs have gone up since)

• taxi/uber/lyft: somewhere around $1.50-$2.50 per vehicle-mile
• DC/WMATA buses, pre pandemic: $1.99 per passenger-mile
• St Louis light rail: $1.01 PPM (unfortunately, I don't have Baltimore data but I think St Louis is going to be similar to Baltimore, based on ridership)

so, how many people do you need in a taxi before the cost is on par with transit? well, in the case of buses, 1-1.25 person in a taxi. what is the average occupancy of a taxi? well, it's 1.3-1.56., so it's actually already cost competitive with the average bus. for light rail, you'd need 1.5-2.5 ppv. cool, so uber-pool would likely be right around the cost of a light rail system on a per-passenger-mile basis.

ok, for the next part, we need to understand the cost to construct different things.

the cost of surface rail in the US is around $125M/mi to $245M/mi. (source1 source2).

the cost of a simple car or utility tunnel is $60M-$88M/mi (source). if the TBM is brought to the surface for each station and a road deck installed instead of train infrastructure, it would be possible to make a tunnel for taxis for less than the cost of a light rail line.

now, the taxis would need to be electric in order to reduce the exhaust requirements (still need a directional vent at each segment for fire safety).

the average vehicle occupancy would need to be 1.5-2.5 in order to be on par or cheaper than a light rail line, so a Ford e-Transit would be an ideal vehicle as it can comfortable seat 4 with bags, and 6-7 in a pinch. so even if the vehicles had low occupancy (1.2-2 ppv) during off-peak hours, peak hours of 3-5 would be able to raise the occupancy enough to be on par or cheaper than a typical light rail line.

so, lower construction cost, much more frequent vehicles (more than one departing per minute at peak, a couple of minutes wait during off-peak).

if Waymo vehicles, which can already operate autonomously and seat 4 comfortably and 6 squeezed, can be used, then theoretically, the cost to operate each vehicle would drop by 30%-50% due to the elimination of the driver.

ohh, and if you're curious, regular roadway vehicle density with 4 ppv would easily cover weekday peak-hour on our light rail, and 6-7 ppv would even handle typical stadium even ridership (would actually handle DC stadium entrants per hour).

the key is for it to either be driverless or to only use regular taxi drivers. if you use buses or trains, then you need expensive drivers and expensive vehicles, which will make it more expensive to operate while also making longer wait times.

this concept would work, but people HATE it because Elon Musk is implementing a project similar to this and that has created a whirlwind of false information about safety, cost, capacity, etc.