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Significant_Jump_21 t1_jddyf5h wrote

>We had a little grand opening festival, they kept the road closed for a day after it was completed so children could ride their bikes and skateboards.

I wasn't here. I saw pics. It's cool they did that.

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>I heard at a neighborhood meeting we won’t get any help, support for having the road resurfaced

I heard the same. That's why they cold patched it. It takes less than a hour.

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underwatertrees t1_jddxyp1 wrote

If you are physically able to do manual labor, try landscaping companies. Not sure about the city, but there are some based in the immediate suburbs. This is the busy season so many will likely be hiring.

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HighFiveYourFace t1_jddshfi wrote

I second the Uber! It is a mile and half from the Hyatt to Max's Taphouse. It doesn't sound like a lot but it is a bit of hike. I only say this because I have parked at Gay street for Camden Yards and walked. That is only a mile but it took forever. At least take an Uber back to the hotel if you walk there.

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Animanialmanac t1_jdds0w5 wrote

I have two patients who were in an accident at that pothole. It’s a very deep, very dangerous hole, I’d call it a sinkhole. Their car isn’t driveable, they have months of pt ahead of them.

I hope you can get this fixed, the area around Caton Avenue, Patapsco Avenue, Wilkens Avenue and Benson Avenue is deteriorating fast because of all the heavy trucks driving through. I won’t drive down that way. I heard at a neighborhood meeting we won’t get any help, support for having the road resurfaced because that would require the road to be closed for hours or maybe more, the truck companies now take priority because they donated to Ms. Porter the new councilwoman and her friend who runs the Village of Violetville.

I remember when Benson Avenue was resurfaced last time, I still worked in the medical office building there. We had a little grand opening festival, they kept the road closed for a day after it was completed so children could ride their bikes and skateboards. I can see how truck companies would be upset at the road closed for a day or two, we need safe roads more than we need whatever jobs the truck companies may have. I don’t know anyone who works for those companies, I know many people who were injured or had car damage from the bad roads.

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Quantius t1_jddqvcy wrote

It falls under the "this is why we can't have nice things" corollary of human behavior.

If you've never worked in a public setting (esp food service) you might have never been the person who had to go clean the bathroom. And sometimes you get asked to go clean that bathroom after an inexplicable incident and you find yourself staring into the abyss, wondering how there can be both so much feces and how it got to all those places.

Everyone assumes it's because establishments are being 'anti-homeless' or some other exclusionary behavior. No. It's because some person or persons ruined it for everyone else. They could have just gone in, used the bathroom like you would expect any normal human to use it, but instead they decided that at that moment, HR Giger was their muse, and poop was their medium.

So if you're never opened the restroom door, and realized that you would have to start cleaning by the light switch, I can understand why you might not be familiar with why they lock the bathrooms in some places. And even worse is that it doesn't happen just the once, it happens multiple times before management finally listens to the employee complaints and installs the lock.

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Significant_Jump_21 t1_jddos2a wrote

Any chance you'll repair the potholes at Caton & Joh? One of my crew trucks took a hit there. Busted the axle. I talked to a friend in DOT. A crew cold patched it last year. You still got open requests for it. It's a 1'x4' hole. You & I know that's not the right way. You gotta clean the hole and use hot mix. Bottom line you need to resurface the road.

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Ghant_ t1_jddnj7r wrote

>A 400-foot barge carrying the three blue cranes passed uneventfully under two bridges to leave the Port of Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal on Saturday. As of Tuesday night, it was off the coast of the Outer Banks, North Carolina.

>Before exiting the Chesapeake Bay, the barge and cranes had to pass under the Key Bridge, which spans the Patapsco River, and the Bay Bridge. Both were temporarily closed to vehicle traffic so that drivers wouldn’t be distracted by the cranes looming below.

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