Them : "I lived through de facto legalization and it's a bad idea"

You: yeah but fuck your real life experience

>We need Hamsterdam. Legalize all of it.

You should start first.

Make a sign and put it in the front of your house.

"If you want to do heroin, knock on my door and you can shoot up in my living room"

>You cant just throw people in jail and keep them there without evidence, to include witnesses.

I agree

At the same time.

Do you believe, yes or no, that even one person who was arrested is 100% innocent? (even by accessory)

I am so happy to hear the parking lot is going away! It is such an eye sore and the area around Penn Station overall really needs to become more pedestrian friendly. This is a great step towards revitalizing the city.

Not nearly enough info here. What kind of place are you looking for? What do you enjoy doing? What kind of things are important to you in a neighborhood? Are you living alone or with a family of 12?

There are links on the sidebar that have generic info on Baltimore and its neighborhoods but if you want better help from us you've got to give us a little more than this.

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I'll probably just try that. Thank you so much for the info!

Exactly. People bring revenue, not cars. Foot traffic leads to a lively neighborhood, which can lead to even more foot traffic

Im happy theyre removing some of this unnecessary parking. I agree that the lot is more than enough. That lot across the tracks is expensive and heavily underutilized anyways

I’m sure the restaurants owners and Charles theater will be much happier with all the new residents and foot traffic from this than they will miss the underused waste of space parking lots and garage on the 1700 block of N Charles

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The garage next to the station is filled by 9am, at least when I was using it regularly. I doubt it's changed much?

And thanks for the downvote -- yay, gotta downvote people I disagree with parking about, rawr! Go get 'em.

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I think it accurately reflects two realities: (1) PG and MoCo are way more closely related to and involved with DC than they are Maryland. Kojo Namdi will host events at Silver Spring libraries. Never heard him talk about Baltimore. These counties also owe their existence to the federal government— nothing but farmland before the post-war / New Deal boom. (2) DC has been gentrified af in the last 20 years. To my ears, there is a direct correlation between that and the use of DMV. In fact I recall a song singing something like “now DC is the DMV” because that’s where a lot of former DC residents have moved, and similarly, where a lot of people from the DC area who previously would have moved to DC, now have to remain because the city has become a playground for the rich, non-locals who move here with dreams of getting caught up in a politician’s sex scandal.

My background: born in DC; moved to Wheaton in middle school; live in Baltimore now.

It’s Acela. Which we’ve already had, just getting upgraded fleet and It just will now reach full speeds with the completion/expansion of the tunnel. Acela will have its own track now and the bottlenecks will be removed from here and NJ which has been the cause of the service chokepoints historically. They’re also electrifying the tracks and moving away from diesel engines

That garage and surface lot is owned by the owner of Lost City Diner, The Depot, Club Charles, and Club 1722 I believe as I know for a fact she owns that entire block. I hope she sells to the highest biding developer so we can get some new mixed-use buildings in Station/Charles North. It’s crazy to me how there’s all those big mostly unused surfaces parking lots between Charles/Lanvale up to Charles/23rd that would be perfect for redevelopment into a mix of housing/retail/entertainment. It would really had a HUGE impact on changing area for the better.

It wasn’t that long ago—just yesterday, to my mind.

Wait we're getting high speed rail?? When is all of this supposed to be done??

https://www.earthcam.com/search/ft_search.php?term=Baltimore

I use it when going to places on N Charles. Very convenient for that neighborhood, and I bet the restaurants and The Charles Theatre like having it

Oh good point. I always forget that Whitehall Mill exists

Theres an underground parking garage at the station + a surface lot + parking garage located a half a block away on Charles at the 1700 block in Station North between Metro Gallery and Club 1722.

Theres ample parking, more than there needs to be at a centrally located transit hub such as Penn Station. Can’t wait for the infill development that should happen around Mount Vernon and station north once this is finished to convert all the surface lots near by into something productive and adds to the tax base.

I’m very excited for this project. it’s going to be a game changer for central Baltimore and mount Vernon/station north

The 5 cars that use it? There’s already a big parking garage right next to the station, that lot could be used much more productively and the city stands to gain from it being redeveloped.