Hi, I’m Chris. I’m the guy who’s done a lot of the lights, particularly in the canton/patterson park/brewers hill area. Most of my customers provide options for collecting payment. Venmo/Zelle/cash/check. Just keep a spreadsheet of payments and share it to something like Google drive like someone else suggested. Many people have a block Facebook group they communicate on or an email chain. I do a lot of estimates so I’m not sure if you met with me or a different company. I’m happy to give you an estimate if not. At 35-40 houses, unless we have to add our own poles to tie into, I’m generally in the $100-110/house range. Feel free to text me for anyone interested @ 410-241-4696.

Second this ^

Places like Canton, Fells Point and Fed Hill that are walkable and have night life, generally don’t have good parking situations. These neighborhoods work best if you don’t own a car. If you’re planning on driving to a job, look at neighborhoods just outside of them, however, the nightlife will be a bit further away and you’ll probably want to look at buying a bike or renting/buying e-scooter. We’re working on improving public transit, but it’s a slow process. If you do want to own a car and live in Baltimore and your job ends up being south of the tunnels, then look south of the tunnel and visa-versa if north. This avoids the biggest bottleneck of the highways and saves you some money since you don’t necessarily need an ezpass if you don’t go through the tunnels often.

There’s one that’s been across the street from my house for like a month. I’m not even sure why the neighbor thinks it’s cool to leave it there.

It’s a pretty bikeable area. On a bike or scooter you have everything you need without ever getting into a car. Some things may be a longer walk which is why I say bikeable. Depending on where you are in Highlandtown, the market on eastern may be a bit of a hike. Target is considerably far for a walk, but some people do it. Within the range of a bike or scooter, you have dozens of restaurants and bars. Walkability/bikability is livability to me and it sounds like it is to you as well OP, since you’re asking about it.

There are definitely streets to avoid. Leverton between East and Highland is a big one. With that said, the area is improving every year.

At one point, Highlandtown was it’s own town/city until Baltimore expanded its boundaries and absorbed it.

Is it a steel wheel or aluminum rim? If it’s an aluminum factory rim, you could check eBay for a single factory rim.

No one here is being sensitive, but your pointless and obvious comment is just a senseless refrain and nothing more. We all know there are a lot of murders here. But they’re a symptom of larger problems. One of the main factors is social inequity. Improving transit for the poorest people improves their quality of life, which in turn decreases poverty, and lowers crime rates. Bringing up the murders in this city any other issue is even slightly tackled is just stale and pointless.

Fair enough, I misread your comment. I apologize.

It’s really not going to be welcome in the coming years once the redevelopment of Perkins Homes is complete and people move back in.

This is BBJ. Does the Sun own them?

It would be pretty awesome to have the water taxi run up the canal into the central part of the city.

My go to’s for jury duty are Mekong Delta and Shake Shack depending on my mood.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

There was proper communication. The business owners (of which they only interviewed people in opposition) are just trying to make theirselves look like the victim. The writer of this article and editor wrote the story they wanted to write.

The design is not dumb, bike lanes are good especially when they double as traffic calming in dense areas. Making it a transit corridor as well would be even better, but I’d delete the auto lanes for transit, not the bike lane.

Lock it in the shed too.

My friend has a Honda Monkey, he has a massive krypronite chain. You could double up and use a cable as well. Layering security lowers the risk of it being stolen. Same goes for bikes.

Yeah within 5 years that area is going to be jumping and expensive.

Guilford brewery is right on Guilford. It’s a nice German style beer hall. Def check that out when exploring the area.

The area between Guilford/Greenmount/Oliver/North Ave is improving a ton and a right around the corner (walkable) from Penn Station.