doesn’t even have a stop at Towson. or at least a bus shuttle.

Look man i just like trains can we build more of them

I don’t have a vehicle and haven’t for a decade. I take buses less since coronavirus (prefer biking) but for many years have taken buses twice a day for commuting across the city and for other purposes as well (grocery shopping, etc. — both MTA and Circulator), with light rail and subway trips as well, depending on destination. I have also previously taken commuter buses out to Columbia in years past.

EDIT: Also a frequent MARC train rider — I buy tickets by the 20 pack.

If the shoe fits. 👞

How often do you take MTA buses?

Buses provide an extremely good step in that direction, without the costs or liabilities of rail, and with much faster implementation. So many people here just insist that trains are magic and anything other than that is a pale shadow of a solution.

EDIT: buses also allow for greater route flexibility over time (additions, changes).

To everyone downvoting this comment, you are providing no counter argument or contrary data.

The biggest problem I see is the complete lack of rail options in East Baltimore.

Oh no, we're talking about wanting a substantial infrastructure investment. It's how you make a city a better place to live and work.

Get people out of car and into public transportation. The only way to do that is to have GOOD public transportation, and you have to pay and build it

Nope. In and of itself, this graphic actually doesn’t have much information or value.

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Sure but virtually all of the densely populated areas not served by rail here have substantial bus service. You can certainly critique the speed and frequency of those buses and the quality of their Inter-connectedness (we need more of them, and more express busses), but the argument for large rail investment over simply better buses has never been convincing.

Unless you’re talking about subway additions or all surface rail lines having light preemption, this isn’t really an argument that’s being made in good faith. And even then you’re talking about astronomical investment and infrastructure additions.

These landlord companies all stink. I would have lived in my first apartment another 3 years if they didn't auto increase the rent 6% each year because the "market pieces" were going up. Meanwhile, like many of you have noted, the identical unit next door was on the market for LESS than we were paying.

Had to fight about it each year for them to knock our rent down instead of signing a brand new lease to move next door, to the same stupid unit, and have them re-list our unit. Moved when they eventually stopped accepting our counter-offer of common sense.

I swear they're allergic to brain cells, cause they sure try their best to alienate happy, paying tenants.

That’s why everyone needs to vote like their life depends on it, because it does!

...we have two free circulators, mostly servicing tourists. All other city busses are paid.

Let's not forget: light rail was meant for people from the suburbs to get into the city and back out. Not for intra-city travel.

Because as always: the state and county do not give a shit about city problems.

Officer Hersl reporting for duty, sir!

Really wish our government could serve their own people better

Right? Apartments and row homes for rent aren’t hard to find here just tell your landlord to kick rocks and move across the street.

You guys still have a free bus line? Maybe I am remembering it wrong, I was pretty lit.

He says it himself, they price fix but its the corporations doing it not a private landlord. This is America baby, donate 25-100k to whom ever is in charge of the local government and have the backing of a foreign bank and you can pretty much do what ever you want.

Great. Limeworks. I have found lime mortar (less the sand) in Home Depots, but its hit or miss who is carrying it. Also Belair building supply sometimes has it.

I find lime mortar a little more difficult to work with than Portland, but not much. The trick is to have the moisture content as low as possible. Just enough that the stuff sticks together when you squeeze a small hand full, not too much that it squirts out of the cracks between your fingers. The tipping point between too dry & too wet is very narrow.

Many of the Youtube videos I have watched no longer are available. One series is by an Irish guy at GMT Pointing Specialists LTD. He has several on the different aspects of lime mortar pointing. Yous the keywords "lime mortar pointing" to search. Some guys are great at showing & explaining some chatter too much or wiggle the camera.

We need the Red Line for east-west transit and another, faster north-south line that connects the densest areas north to Downtown and South Baltimore, maybe Camden Yards.

Eh - it’s missing the context of where the stations are too. The map as-is makes it look like Federal Hill, Pigtown, et al have convenient rail transit access

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[Phase 2 of the Green Line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Line_(Baltimore) , the Charles Streetcar or Yellow Line to Towson and the Red Line along with the MARC upgrades would connect the rest of the denser areas to the core and the regional rail network.