>the place where people are being the most honest, with themselves or others.

Nor is "church" an answer that springs to mind

This sounds reasonable given the task and analysis required to provide sustainable recommendations or models/frameworks...likely blending different solutions together.

Outstanding buffalo wings at iBar if you are into that. It's close by.

Thanks for the explanation. That makes a world of difference 😅

It’s not just a good idea, it’s literally the law of the land that our city illegally refuses to implement.

You’re thinking of the chick fil a in Canton, OP is referring to the one in the inner harbor.

Let me tell you.....the traffic lights are so fucked that I'm ok with money being spent to fix this.

You had to bring that up.

Clippy is... SNIFF!... dead.

Before I get all outrage-ey, can you explain? Because… there’s a ton of parking way closer (Pratt being ~1 mile away from CFA/shake shack). Do they live around Pratt?

Is the county traffic preference the reason why it takes so long to move east-west from like Hamilton to Woodberry when compared to going down to Fed Hill or something? These lights make no sense, some drives can vary in time from like 20-45 minutes not because of traffic but because of how the lights are tuned. It's crazy.

But how's someone in city govt supposed to get their kickback?

Not near Ottobar, but the Courtyard by Marriott in McHenry Row in Locust Point is super safe at night in my opinion and it is a fairly new building so the facilities are super up to date and nice

Its probably best to perform a study to assess the effects of retiming signals on congestion, queuing, impacts to side streets, etc., before arriving at some feasible and viable options to solve the issue and best optimize signal timing for existing and future demands. My question is the price tag. Perhaps the cost is legit, considering the labor it takes to perform a timing analysis at one intersection, multiplied by hundreds, as well as all of the other data collection and analysis that's probably needed. I wish we could see the scope of the study that justifies the cost.

The poor mother. Did any of them learn sign language? I wonder if she could communicate with any of them.

Any insights on the topic of the post itself? I know you mentioned you did some graduate work.

Family $$$…

Most venues treat vaping like cigarettes. I'd assume not.

probably—last time I was there for a large event (2019) people were smoking cigarettes on the balcony in the outdoor part of the venue, so you can probably bring it in, just may not want to openly use it everywhere

I moved here from NoVA a few months ago. I'm glad I did it.

They could pay for the whole thing by ticketing the assholes who park on Pratt to go to Chick-Fil-A and Shake Shack.

Too many think the role of churches (and other religious organizations) are mostly about religious belief. In America, churches have always been much about providing services, for immigrants, social, cultural, and yes job opportunities. Many of Baltimore society churches are places where the upper crust meet and greet and get face time with potential employees. My first summer job (age 14) working in a country club kitchen, was through a church connection. Marriages have always been arranged in church communities.

With the decline of church attendance, there has been a great decline in community socialization. Church membership has always been a collective of people who are interlaced into the greater community. Look at the number of people posting, on this site wanting to know where to meet people. Seems that a bar is the most common answer. Not the place where people are being the most honest, with themselves or others.

$4.5 million to study what could be done by following extant data & some experimentation, seems a bit of a cash out for some insider company. Where can I sign up for that job?

I would start by prioritizing streets by their size and importance in moving traffic. Additionally I would reverse the long standing practice of befitting incoming county traffic, by non city drivers to be non preferential to all drivers.

Possibly disbanding the current staff who seem not to have been successful for these past 40yrs would be a good idea.

I bet many citizens have ideas on the roads that they regularly travel, which would iron out problems. Take Cathedral St at Mulberry & Franklin. As one travels south they have to stop at Franklin st, only to watch Mulberry stay green for most of its cycle. Then when the Franklin st light turns green, the Mulberry light is red. Who does this all benefit? Those traveling to Hopkins medical campus that are coming in from the west side of the city. Though it is hard to see why south bound Cathedral street must stop at each light (one block apart) when the Mulberry & Franklin lights are about the same length. Traveling north bound on Calvert or Charles or Park are similarly hampered.

Many light timing on the lower blocks of Howard indicate they are still on the timing schedule which was active before the light rail was built, and left/right turn lane lights were common.

This is a tough problem, but not insurmountable. In the years before PC's All K-12 school administrators had a similar job in scheduling students. Some students took band, others a foreign language, etc. All these little differences had to be worked out to result in decent class sizes, given the number of faculty and classes which could fit in a day/week.

I fear that a lot of money and time will be spent by office jockeys who will sit at their computer developing a paper driven document, which will take years, and little or no time will be spent, in a car actually driving the streets to learn where the problems exist.

People on reddit would have done it for free.

Having done assessments of IT/OT Infrastructure this is not surprising. Lots of critical infrastructure sectors have massive asset inventory issues (among other massive issues, often forming a nasty feedback loop) where they just don’t know what they have, what’s running on it, etc. I have literally found servers in closets that were powered on and connected to a network that nobody knew existed. And several different incorrect versions of network architecture and configuration is common. It’s no surprise that they have an incomplete asset inventory and had no record of that asset.

The cost to fix all this properly is going to be astronomical. There will be soooooo much work that will need to be done.

Don’t worry, we’re building cycling infrastructure that connects nothing relevant which will subsequently not be utilized and thus not maintained causing it to fall into a state of disrepair as the debris builds up. “Complete Streets” is a good idea but the execution seems poor, which is par for the course in Baltimore. Meanwhile there’s plenty of opportunities to better connect and improve existing cycling infrastructure. But that gets backburnered.