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todareistobmore t1_ixd5is6 wrote

The bike lane isn't the problem, it's putting two lanes of parking there. TBH I don't know the background of the places like Boston St. where there's street parking but only during non-peak hours, but I think it's a lot easier to imagine that being the next iteration of this design than a transit corridor. Just feel like this had the opportunity to be a really forward-looking design in a bunch of different ways and this is disappointing. But then honestly between my office moving out of Fells and the Broadway Market renovation, I hardly ever bike to Fells these days anyway.

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TerranceBaggz t1_ixd4o6n wrote

Journalists really need to do better. They write this garbage and any time a bike lane is built it’s a controversy. Yet if a road is widened, not a peep. They need to educate theirselves on urban planning and stop playing things neutral. When you interview an idiot that says wrong things, lies or omits facts like many of these quotes, it’s the journalist’s job to correct them in the article. Hot garbage like this is actually harmful to the city and country as a whole.

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TerranceBaggz t1_ixd3ybd wrote

More than half of our population doesn’t own cars. So no 578k people don’t have to deal with auto traffic. That’s the point, focusing on cars and putting them first over everything else is choosing to focus on the wealthiest citizen and more so county residents over city residents. You have to pick one. Building Stroads to get county folk to their downtown jobs as quickly as possible drastically decreases quality of life for the people who live in the neighborhoods that those roads go through (historically, these neighborhoods have been overwhelmingly poor and/or black.)

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wee_bey t1_ixd3tc2 wrote

My Catholic school was fairly liberal as well. We had kids of all faiths (Jewish, Muslim, flavors of protestant) and you could generally opt out of most of the religious stuff with a valid reason. You had to take religion classes but they weren't really even Catholic - it was stuff like a critical reading of the bible, philosophy, comparative religions etc.

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TerranceBaggz t1_ixd3gu4 wrote

Do you think DOT has any control over homicides? Do you know what the #1 factor in social mobility is? It’s transit. If you want to lift people out of poverty and as a result lower crime, you provide transit for the poorest in society. I’ve got news for you, poor people cannot afford cars. It’s why over half of our population doesn’t own a car in Baltimore. You really need to look at urban planning books or at least channels on YouTube and learn why cars are so harmful to cities. Carbrain is a disease, but it’s a curable one.

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rfg217phs t1_ixcyu97 wrote

And people wonder why enrollment is down and schools are closing. Curley recently shifted their policy on raffle tickets to instead of if you sell an average of 75 bucks per student extra days off to if you don’t sell that yourself you have to pay the difference. They’re just blatantly admitting they’re marketing schemes wrapped up as a fiefdom of a school.

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JustTheWehrst t1_ixcys20 wrote

Why bother having a good work ethic when the only jobs available to the average person without a degree are slaving away at Uber or grubhub and entry level service jobs that pay $12 an hour where every customer treats you like you're subhuman, maybe if people had decent pay and better working conditions that wouldn't be the case

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