Not at all! It is inoperable because that's easier for me to write out than "I am a very poor candidate for surgery (CHF)." I am certain they could unzip me and replace the joint, but there's a good chance I wouldn't survive. So I'm going to give a "no" to the Medicaid. Not unless the doctor were a bit overeager.

What intrigued me was your reference to Medicaid. I had Medicaid benefits for two years after my husband's death. At that point, I both qualified for Medicare and was able to retire on my own record as opposed to as his widow. My financial picture changed to the point where I could take care of my own Medicare, and the Medicaid stopped. Fair enough. My recent application for a scooter via Medicare was denied. I felt the physical therapist made a good case.

What is curious is that I have innumerable friends, neighbors, smoking buddies, and partners in crime in this building, and many of them have terrific scooters courtesy of Medical Assistance (Medicaid). I would not begrudge a single one of them. They have worked hard, served in the military, paid their taxes, raised their families, and contributed to our city and society as a whole. In comparing notes, it seems that Medicare wants you to keep your scooter within your own four walls, while Medicaid wants you to use your scooter to get out and do those things you need to do to continue to age in place. Nothing to do with Baltimore in particular, but it is very odd.

Too bad Meadow Mills isn’t open anymore. In one year there, I saw more naked old men in the locker rooms than I’ll probably ever see in a lifetime of looking in the mirror.

How do you like working there and are you full time?

Flix bus is an option as well. $15.99 Not sure how convenient this option is to your destination but at least it's something.

I've used it to go to DC from Baltimore and vice versa but never anywhere else. I do know that lots of people use it to go from NYC to DC and back and that's definitely a lot longer than from Baltimore and Philadelphia.

Wow! That was uh, truly eye opening! Lots and lots of larceny. I'm honestly wondering what time these crimes took place though? Especially the aggravated assaults, the shootings and the homicides.

You forgot locust point.

It’s not bad, and if you drive to Wheaton and take the metro you can save yourself a little stress

Was pouring concrete in a 95°day., On a new hose with no water. Ran out of drinking water in cooler. Went to house next door, rather than bother someone or possibly set off alarm, attempted to get water from water spigot. Got yelled at for stealing water. Edit new house, not new hose

Until the non-sketchy people get inadequate support from law enforcement and city leadership. Then they take their non-sketchy, broken and beat down asses to less sketchy areas

You will be with thousands of other Ravens fans, it won’t be weird.

Heck, I flew down to Tampa to see Brady vs Ravens for the last time and there were enough Ravens fans around me to make it a ton of fun.

The commute? When you slam on the brakes (and you will), have one eye on the rear view mirror.

It's real BS from the city permit office. In other countries in MD and in DC, if you want to build a conduit/gas line/water line, the permit office requires that the contractor needs to include repaving the road curb to curb, curb repair, sidewalk repair/improvements, road striping.

It's a good way for municipalities to get road improvements without having to pay for them out of pocket, it just becomes the cost of construction.

I do not see Baltimore enforcing this anywhere in the city. And if they did, we'd have a nicer place to live in.

I am a caregiver who has experience w/ some of your issues. Why is it inoperable? Also, and I am not kidding, would it be operable on medicaid?

The roads are still shit even after they repave them. On top of that they only repave half of the road and all of the markings are coming off within 3 months. This city has no oversight on any contractors working for them.

I'm saying that being up to a jury depends on actually getting in front of a jury. I'm not talking about the squeegee situation in particular but the reality of prosecutorial discretion being used inequitably.

I’m working and can’t go, but also 100% go by yourself - it won’t be weird at all.

how long has it been going on? further up on the road they still have the bumpy patches that were never smoothed out. I'm hoping it doesn't turn into that again

Like they’re any less horrible to deal with lol

BGE is redoing the natural gas lines in the neighborhood. They should re-pave the road at the completion of the work.

But I doubt if they have an expected date. BDOT may have a date, BGE may, possible the council person. Real answer is they'll do it when they do it, if they do it at all.

Road repaving in this city is a crime, the city permitting office needs to enforce.

EDIT: BGE identified a corroded gas main in the summer

Glad you posted this. I'm in the old fart club here in Baltimore also. I'm 64 and health issues stopped me from working this year. And have been planning on trying out the YMCA in Parkville !

My office is in Rockville. When I lived in Mount Vernon and Downtown, it was an hour or less door to door in the evenings barring any dramas and a bit under an hour in the mornings. I would work from like 7 to 3 to beat the traffic. It wasn't horrible, actually.

Now I live in Butchers Hill. This has added 20 minutes to my commute, and it sucks. Definitely live closer to 395 in Baltimore if you can.

I hate the commute, I'm happy when it is decent, but I really cannot stand driving it. If the Purple Line ever gets done and I still work where I work now, I'll just take MARC and the purple.

OP of this thread says you should be allowed to be up to 15 minutes late. They clearly don't know what goes into Paratransit service. The average Paratransit trip is something like $80/trip in a lot of areas, no matter how far you go. Because there is a lot of curb to curb, door to door, hand to hand, sensitivity training and a lot that goes into the service. When people think retail customer service is a horrible experience for a job, try transportation.

And you're correct, there are only a few ways to improve on-time performance, the main focus, and that's:

• Get more drivers and vehicles, very costly - it already costs $80 dollars a trip. If paratransit riders take 4 trips a day, they are already costing something like $320/day. Shortage of resources is only a problem if they are rejecting trips and already meeting capacity. Anyways, they aren't forgotten, a lot goes into it. Maybe there's a driver shortage? No idea. Or maybe like the article says, it was snowy. They literally used shit weather to use as an anecdote that the service is bad. Sloppy journalism. Of course it's difficult to predict a schedule when it's booked in advance and a snow storm all of a sudden impacts it. Because most trips are standing order/subscription. A lot of Paratransit operations just cancel all reservations, which is probably what they should have done before stranding them, but then again, I don't know the exact context.

• Completely enforce the no-show policy, which means your vehicle will leave after five minutes with no exceptions. But OP says they should be able to be up to 15 minutes late after the vehicle arrives. Makes no sense. Or,

• The most realistic option. Use an algorithm that uses realistic traffic time and route the trips efficiently. A lot of operations have negotiated times or can be a lot more accurate about pickup times to reduce lateness from the driver or from the rider. Some systems use as the crow flows/haversine to schedule times. Additionally, they can get a lot of notifications about their schedule in real-time, so you're not late or miss your exact time. But you still need to be ready during the window because traffic and rider behavior is unpredictable when doing door to door.

That would improve on-time performance and wait times.

You're in Glen, so when I lived in Pikesville and Mount Washington/Cheswolde area, I went to Lifebridge for a while. It was a really, really nice gym with an indoor track and sooooo much equipment. I really loved that gym, but it was expensive as hell. This was back in like 2014 and 2015, but they used to give you a free session with a trainer to get a plan down. I had just switched from the old Lynn Brick that was in that St. Thomas plaza on Reisterstown Road where I had been paying for a trainer at a ridiculous weekly rate... I combined what I had been doing at Lynn Brick with what they gave me at Lifebridge and I was pretty much good to go. It's an all ages gym, plenty of older people. No one cared about what folks were wearing? At worst there would be guys in there trying to flirt.

Another one I used to go to that is a bit farther out was Bare Hills which I think is now called Coppermine. That skewed much older. Also a really nice gym where no one cared what you wore. Lots of equipment, families. The tennis courts were pretty busy.

I would recommend contacting the Greater Greenmount Community Assn, a great local volunteer organization. They can give you a resident’s perspective and bring you up to date with all that’s going on.

https://www.greatergreenmount.org/

I used to do Baltimore to Rockville everyday. It can either be 45-50 or 2 hours. I ended up changing employers because I wanted to shorten my commute. It’s a bearable commute but I would try to find a place with designated parking.