Recent comments in /f/baltimore

Ok-Beautiful-8403 t1_j9wiwe0 wrote

I actually did look up what they are recently! I remember learning that 20 some years ago, but had forgotten. So I am trying to do that when needed.

Of course, the problem with that is, does everyone else on the road know them? lol. They can't even parallel park!

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Cunninghams_right t1_j9wirtp wrote

all of our transit, then and now with the red line, is "boomer transit" designed to connect suburbs to a city, which just takes at face value the argument that everyone should live in suburbs and work in cities. the result of that attitude is why our city, like many in the US, has a problem with livability. we have county people choking traffic in the city with their daily commutes and somehow we keep kowtowing to the needs of non-city residents to the detriment of city residents.

transit should connect adequately within a city before it reaches out to the suburbs. our light rail is 30mi long. it would be far better to have 6 separate 5mi long lines blanketing the city, with bus routes feeding people into those light rail lines.

or more importantly, we have to reassess whether light rail even makes sense in the US. grade separation is the difference between functional and dysfunctional transit. you can look at every light rail line in the US and rank them best-to-worst and you'll find that the better they are, the more time they spend grade-separated. at-grade light rail is always shit in every US city because the US gives cars (often from the county) priority over everything else. a light rail could work well if we did like other countries do and have the lights automatically synch perfectly with the light rail (well, AND if transit agencies like MTA could hire and retain train drivers)

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Biomirth t1_j9wi58t wrote

I'm sure you know this but there are hand signals out the window for this circumstance. Same as bike signals. I mean, probably only need to do it when there's someone who you can see would benefit from it (unlike people that never use their signals who don't seem to differentiate and just never use them).

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