With all the red tape you have to go through to do government construction work, 4 million dollars will probably pay for 10 feet of road repair.

I've seen people just toss trash right out their window while driving....

It’s mostly that people are filthy and will liter like it’s 1963. The worst is when I see people toss trash out of their car windows. My house is on a corner and I have to pick up trash out of my yard on a weekly basis.

> it speaks heavily towards the kind of people who live in this city.

There's a lot of really good people in this city. And a lot of shitty ones. I had the same experience with a west coast city. It gets talked about like its nice but you get there and are greeted with a straight up piss smell that takes up whole blocks. Baltimore is like every other city - some good things, some bad things. Some bad people, some good people. There are horrible things that happen in other cities that never happen here, and the reverse. That said, fuck people who litter.

Thanks for the response. :) And congratulations for coming out!

Insurance is hard to compare. Each companies have these robust and vast quantities of underwriting data that take so many factors into account. On top of that they’ve collected this data for decades and all that determines the rate.

Mazal tov Ashley!

You are always a delight and constant companion on my commutes. You're the car friend I've never met but feel like I know.

Your visibility (audibility??) will give so many people that feeling that they know a transitioning friend, and make it so much easier for others to be accepted too. Bravo!

I mostly use they, but she is welcome!

besides that people just throw their trash on the ground and it has nothing to do with recyling.

This is so delightful!

My friends from Raleigh came up to visit once. My buddy literally said "So, do you guys just not have trash cans here?"

Baltimore's level of litter is straight up embarrassing and it speaks heavily towards the kind of people who live in this city.

Thank you for your 2 cents

People just avoid speeding in front of the cameras now there's always a slowdown where the camera is and then as soon as people are past the camera it's right back to 80 mph and weaving out of traffic.

And I'm going to be stealing this wonderful description.

As someone with 3 fines sitting on my desk, they’re $40

The DPW slander in Baltimore is overblown. I’ve never seen workers slacking on their job or half stepping.

Lotta factors in this IMO.

1. I really think folks really don’t know how to tie up their trash bags when they throw them out.

2. This city is a wind tunnel with tiny alleys that don’t permit trucks to drive through, resulting in workers having to physically remove bags more often than rather loading them on trucks.

3. Rats chewing through cans and bags, will just leave a mess for when the cans are eventually knocked over by the wind.

4. Severe lack of trash cans on city streets. Not enough workers to maintain the fans that do exist. Community associations in a few neighborhoods actually help out with this.

5. Street sweeping suffers if folks don’t adhere to moving their cars.

We all got issued larger recycling cans and I really feel like that you can’t recycle bi-weekly then you should take a look at your own consumption.

Or at least take some time to breakdown the boxes that you put in the can to make for more space. In my own ally I see people stuff their fans with things they think can be recycled.. and it’s like throwing a wish up to the gods for credit that “I’m doing my part.”

I think most of us are not recycling properly. DPW does not accept glass, paper with food residues, or low graded plastic. DPW SHOULD however do a better job of educating the public on what and how they do things.

Trash and recycling is all out of sight/ out of mind but if we are truly invested in this we would understand that this part of the state, and the country in general has a huge trash problem based on overconsumption and not holding companies responsible for over packaging their products.

Yeah, was a bit of a shock when I moved here too. Have you heard about Mr. Trashwheel? Folks here are like "LOL our waterways are so choked with litter let's just put a cute anthropomorphized water wheel here instead of... I don't know.... say, not littering".

One might even say, shitizens.

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Thought it was me...had to look like 3 xs

Curious how are you defining success?

every time someone complains about the trash somebody pipes up with this recycling bullshit. do people think the city started being covered in trash 25 years ago.

> I've seen them actually acknowledge that they can't pull people over even if they wanted to because of the lack of road shoulders...

I had a cop light me up on 83. I was between Cold Spring and Northern and so I went to Northern, exited 83 and pulled over where there was a nice big shoulder. Cop went ballistic on me accusing me of ignoring him.

I got off with a warning. So maybe he recognized I was looking out for his well being.