Not entirely sure, tbh. Like I think daylighting the canal would've been great and compatible with both traffic calming and a bike lane (at the expense of parking), but with that and transit off the table I think I'd still rather have the bike lane in the middle of the road like the proposal for 33rd St. Then you could put the parking against the curb but have bumpouts to shorten crossing distances too?

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First, please show me where I said to focus on cars and put them first over everything else?

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>(historically, these neighborhoods have been overwhelmingly poor and/or black.)

I live in a neighborhood near Central and Monument. My neighborhood's population is 87% black, the average home purchase price here is $55,000 and our median household income is below the median for the city. I kind of get it.

>More than half of our population doesn’t own cars. So no 578k people don’t have to deal with auto traffic.

I'm one of those people who doesn't own a car. The notion that we don't also have to deal with auto traffic is news to me. So you're telling me -- a pedestrian and public transit user 90% of the time and ride share user the other 10% -- doesn't have to deal with auto traffic on my commutes? Please tell me how that works because it sounds wonderful. I was unaware that when I'm walking I don't have to deal with auto traffic. When I ride the bus I don't have to deal with auto traffic? Please share how that works.

But I think you missed the point: Everyone who goes anywhere in this city has to deal with auto traffic -- whether they concern themselves with the murder rate or not. So, yeah, we get, it there were 300 murders in our city, that doesn't change the fact that the rest of us have to go on about our lives. The homicide rate is awful; the other 99.999% of us who are still alive can concern ourselves with the traffic we have to deal with every day while we also concern ourselves with violent crime.

Yup. Where Jason's Deli used to be.

The point was to have traffic calming. Adding back in a traffic lane defeats that purpose. I’m not sure what you are calling for here to improve it. Could you elaborate? (We know they aren’t adding a BRT lane for a circulator or light rail.

I went to public school in TN, but my husband went to St. Joe’s (or maybe y’all call it Mount St Joe’s, I don’t know). I had never met anyone Catholic before meeting his family. He was Catholic but says he’s atheist now because of St. Joe’s. Not sure exactly what happened but it really soured his view on the church.

I’ll bet you do

Things get crowded and drunk starting at 10-11PM. I normally start at 7-8ish and get food somewhere and try to get home before things get too gross but to each their own!

Gotcha. Thanks!

Yeah I’m in Fed too. I think for crowded bars, definitely Mothers during games, Nobles too. If you are into trivia - CrossBar and Delia Foleys have decent crowds, might have to ask to get on a team but doubt it would be hard. For chiller bars, Pub Dog and Magerks normally have friendly people mulling about.

Things to start to pick up around 7 PM'ish. I'd aim for starting NLT than 8 PM. You can definitely check out a few places in a single night.

I went to Catholic High, the school in question, and there is a rich history of shitty administrators there. This same president was under fire a couple years ago for the blatant racism happening to non-white students over the decades. The whole admin tried sweeping it under the rug. They acted like they were taking it seriously by assembling a task force of alumnae, and then she wouldn't implement any of the suggestions that were presented to the administration. Nothing was done to address the concerns from previous and current students. It doesn't surprise me in the least that this expelled student who is a "perfect fit for public school" is a minority. This isn't even a Catholicism problem, but more of a Catholic High problem.

If that really is the call. Maybe she rejected the advances of the wrong gym teacher, with the lack of transparency and one side of the story we’ll probably never know, but there’s got to be more to it than this. Even if they just wanted to take her scholarship money and give it to someone else.

4.1 bil? Nice. That would do wonders for me, that's for sure...but what's the mean for a city? I mean, it's more than twice that here in DC and we don't have gold-paved streets.

And assuming that's viable for a city the size of Baltimore, what's that mean in a historical context? Like, if I've been living in poverty for 20 years, and I make a living wage next year, my situation is still going to be fucked on Dec 31 2023.

Orient Express (in Charles Village) >>> Ni Hao. It sounds generic, but it's where all the international Hopkins students eat and they have an extended back menu of traditional dishes

Yeah, I suspect the scholarship played into this. Regardless it's a shit call to make.

Sounds good! What time should I go? I'm just now getting started with going out on Friday nights so idk if you mean 7PM, 10PM, or 1AM.

"Tradition" is the usual response for things like this.

>The politicians need to promote laws that will give incentives to create strong families

Such as?

And I would argue that split families are a symptom, not the cause. Same thing that happened to Korean families living in Japan during the occupation. When you redline and over police and restrict opportunities to a community the families often fall apart.

And they have shown that a "broken" black familyin the US growing up in a place with good opportunities and outcomes have the same success rate as kids of white families with similar situations.

So focusing on the family is usually just a way of ignoring underinvestment and lack of opportunity and demonizing black people.

Same - we had world religion too. And it's easy saying it from this side, but if you had to sit through masses not of your faith, I imagine that would build patience, which is a virtue! (no pun intended)

Just walk around Fed Hill and check out the scene. There's probably a dozen'ish places that fit the bill that are basically next to each other. There's always something going on every Friday and Saturday night, except around holidays.

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His point is that everyone gave solutions but no one mentioned the best solution. The solution is strong families. Strong families make stronger communities. The politicians need to promote laws that will give incentives to create strong families. The politicians are busy promoting laws like legalizing drugs that definitely don't promote strong families. I dont know what those laws are but there is a reason that foreigners are highly successful in America and it starts with families.

Is Nobles busy during weekday nights as well?

It's not that theory either lmao. We're talking about murders here bruh, not purse snatching or fights. A study on general crime deterrence doesn't prove that more police activity is going to have an impact on murder rates specifically.

People have already tried to find a correlation between adding cops and crime reduction. The best they could come up with is mixed results; and in the case of murder rates, a number of cities that increased police presence, arrests, etc saw increases or no impact in murders committed.

Look, you're not the first person to grasp at straws in an attempt to prove that there's some viable short term criminal justice solution to murder rates. People have been failing to make this argument for decades just like you have.