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Since private conversations didn't work, I'm publicly begging a certain business owner to stop giving the finger to my wife and 2 year old child every time they drive by them walking or biking in the neighborhood.
Just please stop doing this stuff in front of my kid.
ALT Local neighborhood business owner and driver of a green car with expired tags gives the finger to a woman crossing the street with her young child.
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If the hood is too tall on your truck to see a 6 foot tall man in a crosswalk, it shouldn't be allowed on the road.
A week ago this intersection would have allowed the truck to turn at 4x this speed, and this man would be dead instead of walking away unharmed.
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Food retailers should be forced to accept SNAP, thanks for coming to my talk.
Op-ed: Just as food retailers aren't forced to accept SNAP, landlords should be able to decide for themselves whether to make a government program part of their business model, a real estate executive writes. bit.ly/31Sv1Kh
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I'm 6 feet tall and there's no reason this truck should exist in a city, or really at all.
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That intersection I tweeted where the pickup truck hit that guy a while back?
Much safer now thanks to GRIA, @grahamprojects and @BmoreCityDOT.
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If you have these signs in your yard, you are a bad person. Nobody should listen to your opinions.
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Like for real can my kid just get to daycare in peace without seeing the finger? This is constant.
ALT Local business owner and driver of a green car giving the finger to a bicyclist with his 2 year old.
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I have received the results of my Public Information Act request on this crash.
On May 25th at approximately 6:00pm, a driver failed to lawfully yield to a bicyclist riding in the Roland Ave bike lane, turning into the bike lane and knocking the bicyclist off of their bicycle.
The #BPD thanks its officers for employing de-escalation techniques as they are trained to do.
#BPDproactivity
#Communitypolicing
#BPDCareers
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It's an utter failure that these pools are closed and there aren't safe routes for kids to bike and walk to other open park pools.
But also, filming these kids just trying to stay cool from a $2 million helicopter with ~$500k a year in operating costs is weird and bad.
Several children were caught breaking into one of the many Baltimore City pools that remain closed with their gates chained. The break-in was caught on Monday. Footage details the children breaking in, setting up "camp", and entering the water along with a scooter.
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Seoul has 2 COVID-19 deaths. Baltimore has 31. Seoul is 500% denser than Baltimore.
This is an absurdly wrong take that would only accelerate the climate disaster that is a root cause of pandemic.
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Shared to @bikemorebmore, a reckless driver managed to get themselves well up the Jones Falls Trail boardwalk.
Hopefully this wonderful new recreational asset wasn't structurally damaged.
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The victim was transported to a local hospital. Despite this being an injury crash, the at-fault driver was not cited or tested for substances.
@BaltimorePolice shouldn't post praise they receive without vetting the facts. This post read as gross victim blaming, because it was.
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Woke up this morning thinking about the recent meeting where our soon-departing bike planner opened with a shared values statement saying "we all want all users of the road to be safe right?" and someone called out "nah we don't want bikers to feel safe" to applause.
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Dang. Tell that to these 7 folks I came across in just a couple blocks biking and scooting home from work tonight in 30 degree weather while only 3 cars go by in the same timeframe.
BikeMore is pointless system. We do not need bike lanes!! We cant get fixed roads but we got bike lanes!!!! Nobody use them!! Nobody go buys food with a bike, nobody uses a bike to go to work. This traffic IS CRAZY & at all time high!! @MayorBMScott @jedweeks #DefundBikeLanes
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People comment about how well the developer repurposed this "old warehouse" next to me so I think you're onto something.
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The bicyclist initiated the 911 call, describing the crash and stating that he had a broken wrist. Mid 911 call, he pauses talking to the operator to calmly tell the driver that she can't leave.
Police were dispatched and arrived at the scene within 10 minutes of the 911 call.
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Imagine being able to walk from Lake Montebello to Leakin Park under the shade of trees, safe from speeding cars.
Some folks *really, really* hate this idea, and are doing everything they can imagine to stop it from happening.
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Baltimore's Central Avenue (currently being repaved ~90 feet wide) instead with a daylighted stream, as rendered by Dall·E
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If I was full narcissist and had $44b I'd simply build a full metro system for Baltimore and donate the rest to a UBI scheme, and have hundreds of years of positive legacy instead of being a weird fascist creep owning a broken web platform where idiots like me say shit like this.
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Mugged in station north and I told the dude with the gun I wanted my wallet back so I didn't lose my ID and he gave it back with the ID and said "Happy Valentine's Day" (it was indeed Valentine's day).
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Seville, a city comparable in population to Baltimore, built 80km of separated bike infrastructure in 1.5 years. They removed 6,000 parking spaces in the process.
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This has been an open secret for years, and when people like me asked the journalists covering Hogan for the region's major papers to investigate it we were called "trolls." I'm glad someone finally wrote it up.
A real estate developer wins executive office. He then maintains an active interest in his business, putting his family in charge, and carries out policies to boost his profits. Sounds like Donald Trump, right? Turns out, it's Larry Hogan. washingtonmonthly.com/magazi…
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This so called @GovLarryHogan Baltimore HQ is so abandoned there are @BenJealous posters on the door. What a joke.
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People love "nobody uses the bike lanes" anecdotes as a reason to remove them.
Tonight I crossed one of the busiest intersections in Remington. 30 seconds, no cars, 2 bikes.
I'm assuming there will be no calls to remove these roads.
Maybe we can stop with bad faith arguments.
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$2 billion could:
👩🦽 make every street ADA accessible
🚦upgrade/re-time every traffic light
🌉 repair every failing bridge
🚗 repave every street in need
🚲 build the entire bike network
And we'd still have $500m left over to use as federal match $ for another transit line.
The $1.2 billion for stadium improvements, which will likely cost the state more than $2 billion after interest, is an unparalleled infusion of taxpayer money into Baltimore. trib.al/v2R2XpC
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A reminder that the poorest families in Baltimore, a whole 1/3 of our city and a majority of renters, will not feel this relief.
They ride the bus, and the fares *increase* in July.
I understand that a gas tax holiday alone won’t fix the pain Americans are feeling at the pump.
But it will provide families some immediate relief – what my dad would call, "just a little bit of breathing room.”
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Not the Margo Bruner-Settles "No More Bike Lanes" truck running a red light on the street she wants to remove traffic calming infrastructure along...
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Nearly a billion for brand new highways the next 3 years and $0 for new transit despite the former being proven to do nothing but worsen congestion and destroy the plant but you're injecting "costly"
Breaking: Md. Gov, Wes Moore is relaunching a costly transit line for Baltimore whose cancellation became a symbol of neglect.
But questions remain:
Will it be light rail or buses?
Will the feds pay for it?
Can Md pay for it?
Can it afford not to?
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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Even a modern gas leaf blower puts out more hydrocarbons in an hour than a F150 cross country drive.
Over 800 Baltimoreans die from complications of emissions related diseases annually. Kids routinely miss school because of Asthma.
This is an extremely bad take, TJ.
“We should be making everyone move in the direction of something quieter” ~@ElectRyanDorsey on banning gas powered leaf blowers.
I watched three times. Yes, banning gas powered leaf blowers because they’re too loud and environmentally unsafe.
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I honestly can't thing of a thing this man did that didn't result in later destruction.
🚨NEW REPORT: As governor, @LarryHogan pressed for ever-larger cargo ships in Baltimore's port - despite safety warnings from an insurance giant & marine experts.
Hogan said port expansion for megaships would improve safety.
He's now running for Senate. levernews.com/hogan-pressed-…
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Oh my god just fund Amtrak and MARC already. Build the B&P tunnel replacement, undo Hogan's walk back of the MARC Growth and Investment Plan, and we'll be able to get to DC nearly as fast as the maglev at a price real humans can afford.
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Can out of state vacant property owners who break city code and law over a decade be held criminally responsible for the injury or death of firefighters who work their asses off saving lives in this town? Because they should be.
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I knew it was gonna be bad but I didn't have Smith saying it's unfortunate you can't shoot City Schools employees on my bingo card.
New Baltimore Sun owner insults staff in meeting, says paper should mimic Fox45 bit.ly/3vDzwwR
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Baltimore could have what Atlanta has below if we implemented the Baltimore Greenway Trails Network.
We followed this young girl for many miles on Atlanta’s Beltline today.
Her father was happy to sit back and let her spread her wings; allowing her to savor the taste of freedom that accompanies biking without fear of motor traffic.
Our job is to make this a reality everywhere.
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Do not have a child so maybe I missed this, but why do the school police have a very large, brand new fleet of SUVs instead of that money being spent on, idk, schooling??
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Can't underestimate how good it feels to have a separated route all the way to the park.
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.@BmoreCityDOT experimenting with NYC style turn calming (20% reduction in pedestrian injuries where implemented there).
This install at 29th and Huntingdon formalizes a guerilla turn calming treatment installed here by a mystery person early in the pandemic.
Honkin' slow 🎉
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It's always been crazy to me that our city's answer to "we could easily make this a UNESCO World Heritage Site, why not apply" has been "because we want to park on it."
Why is Fells Point open to car traffic? The narrow sidewalks allow for no social distancing, lots of biz open for take out, why not close it to cars and create a safer more welcoming space?
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Can I just say how refreshing it is to have a soon-to-be mayor join your community association call and talk extremely competently and compassionately off the cuff about an incredibly wide variety of challenging issues while also chasing his cat...
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Here's no bollards and no traffic calming. Just pure luck two people in the crosswalk aren't dead.
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This is the 3rd crash in 3 days in 3 blocks of 28th Street, a road that was supposed to have a community association grant-funded lane reduction installed in March. The grant? We are about to lose it for lack of @BmoreCityDOT action. The crashes? They continue.
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Can you share the total Baltimore Police budget for each of the past five years to help me understand how Baltimore politicians have "defunded the police in a now obvious way?"
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Wonder if any local celebrities are gonna tweet about the grubhub bicyclist just hit by a driver in Remington who fled the scene.
Mother of his kids had his mangled bike in the back of a borrowed car, scared crying kids in the back.
He and his bike the source of their income.
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Let's also make historic investments in transit, make ebikes cheaper, and give people who reduce car ownership or are car free a tax credit.
We are accelerating the transition to clean cars to meet our climate goals.
But we need to make sure that in the clean car revolution, no one is left behind.
That’s why we’re going to make it cheaper to buy electric in the state of Maryland.
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Closing a park to people so it can be open to cars sucks.
What sucks more? It costs a family *more* to attend the single bike or walk nights.
A full car is $12.51 entry. If my wife, son, and I ride bikes on bike night? $12.51 each. Walk on family night? $23.18 total.
#BCRPAlerts (12/4): Beginning tonight, Monday, 12/4, and running thru Monday, 1/1/24, Druid Hill Park will close nightly at 5PM — including weekends and holidays — due to Charm City Lights.
Vehicles must vacate the park by 3PM, as cars will begin to be towed at that time.
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Finance bros that "live in Baltimore" stop talking about the dangers of public transit they've literally never ridden challenge
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Streets should not be designed for two hours of cars, but the remaining 22 hours of community.
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In this piece, Baltimore blames the pandemic for slowing infrastructure. In the time Baltimore built 7.5 miles:
Pittsburgh built 50
Providence built 43
New Orleans built 27
Each of these cities will build more in 2023 than Baltimore has built total from 2017-Present.
A good summary from @BaltimoreBanner's @ZawodnyDaniel of how far Baltimore has fallen behind on building out its own adopted bike plans, featuring our ED @jedweeks and Black People Ride Bikes's @spittsmcman.
thebaltimorebanner.com/commu…
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Every driver going 5x the speed limit in Baltimore City and crashing into houses and killing people has expired Virginia plates that we can't do anything about because Virginia refuses reciprocity, change my mind.
I'm convinced this is true.
Make me proud tonight, #NOVA.
ALT Man in a blue sweater holding a coffee cup sits behind a black folding table. A large white poster with black writing is taped to the table that reads: Cars registered in Maryland don't have working turn signals. Change my mind."
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For those tuning in from outside of Baltimore, this is how this trail is supposed to be enjoyed:
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State Law: "Post salary ranges"
Hopkins: "In cases where the range is displayed as a $0 amount, salary discussions will occur during informal candidate screening calls, before any subsequent compensation discussion is held between the candidate and any hiring authority."
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Tonight a drunk-presenting, texting driver crashed into the traffic calming planters near my home as I was crossing the street with my neighbor.
Had they not been there, had she not hit them and instinctively swerved, it would have been both of us under her car.
ALT An image of a hit and run driver speeding from the scene of a crash.
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Only one of these things is a horrible affront to the beauty of an ocean view.
New: The town of Ocean City is leading a large coalition that filed a federal lawsuit Friday afternoon against the U.S. Department of the Interior seeking to block an approved offshore wind project, @adampwillis reports thebaltimorebanner.com/commu…
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The common refrain I hear on this stuff is that we can't do anything because it could harm the offending person that is likely poor that owns the car. The thing is they're also *hitting and disabling other poor peoples' cars* and destroying their lives.
What's the solution?
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Today a driver hit an 8 year old on a small neighborhood street in Edmonson Village. The scanner description was "Medic needed ASAP, he's pretty bloody."
People need to slow the eff down on neighborhood streets and the city needs to do everything in their power to force them to.
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The big bold plan: removing infrastructure that resulted in a 40% reduction in crashes in the district she wants to serve.
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Such a typical Baltimore self-own.
Advocates fight for and win free money, remind city it's in danger of losing it, city says "shush, we're on it," city loses the funding, was never on it.
Detroit has built most of their Greenway while we've talked about ours.
We alerted the city multiple times that these funds were in danger of being lost. Bikemore and our delegation were assured that the city was on top of this.
There is no fathomable excuse for losing these funds. All the city had to do was ask for them.
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Legally crossing the street on a trail in a crosswalk is now "went into the westbound lane...and collided with the front of the vehicle."
Seriously, what the fuck is this reporting. Do better @wjz.
A bicyclist has died after colliding with the front of a car in Baltimore County earlier Tuesday, police say. baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021/…
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The best thing to happen on Saint Paul Street in Charles Village is gone, returned to cars.
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"Trying to cross the JFX" = using the marked crosswalk at Fayette Street?
If so, it should be reported as such. If not it should be made a lot more clear.
61-year-old woman trying to cross JFX is killed in hit-and-run, Baltimore police say trib.al/xL9vc60
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A few vocal haters want you to believe Baltimore is different: that here, people don't want safer streets, bike lanes and trails, or more reliable transit.
A few months ago they suggested a poll be conducted so we would know the truth.
Here it is. Baltimore is not different.
Polling from @CMTAlliance & @railstotrails conducted just before the primary election shows Baltimoreans want safer street infrastructure & more transportation options.
✅ Majority support for building the Greenway Trails Network, dedicated bike lanes & the Bike Master Plan.
ALT A graphic showing 79% of survey respondents say it's important to have trails in your neighborhood. 62% of white, 64% of Black, and 74% of Latino respondents agree bike lanes benefit people. 58% say they're more likely to vote for pro-trail candidates. And a majority supports building the Greenway Trails Network increasing dedicated bike Lanes in Baltimore City and building the Baltimore City bicycle master plan.
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Lotta unpermitted events because police deny the permits or extort communities into insane fees for them to be present.
Couldn't have a permit for a children's Halloween parade in Remington because they black out Halloween and simply say no events period.
“Baltimore’s acting police commissioner made a surprising admission on Monday, calling his department’s lack of presence at a large weekend gathering … in which 30 people were shot — two of them fatally — an intelligence failure.” By @conarck thebaltimorebanner.com/commu…
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Lol there are people actively arguing on Nextdoor right now that calling Bikemore advocacy "terrorism" isn't hyperbole and that we are subverting democracy, destroying the social order, and violently holding drivers hostage by...expanding city trails.
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My job means I take way too many calls about people being doored or struck by drivers.
Today the call ended up being my wife who was doored.
Second time she's been hit this year. First was an intentional hit by a driver during bike party.
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Surely this and the 3rd Bay Bridge crossing have nothing to do with the multiple Hogan Companies exclusively brokered properties along the very same corridor.
At my direction, we are providing $15 million to accelerate the planning phase and to move MD 90 improvements ahead into the design phase, which is an important and critical step closer to making this a shovel-ready project.
Details: governor.maryland.gov/2022/0…
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Guy at the bar who just moved to Baltimore from Oakland:
"What the fuck, I got here and saw this Roland thing. Why the hell is Baltimore ripping out bike lanes? That's the opposite of what cities do."
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Hi! It's a beautiful Friday and creating safe, accessible routes for people to get around our city is a wonderful thing. That's why we do the work we do. Go check out #BigJumpBaltimore this weekend. Thank you @bmorecitydot @leonfpinkett and @peopleforbikes.
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Someone spray paints FOPenis on the lodge wall and now there's riot fencing closing a whole block surrounded by parked dump trucks like the terrorists would be coming from outside that building, when the reality is they come from within.
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Beautiful day to knock doors in Remington with @Zeke_Cohen and @jermaineajones.
Remington says Hell no to Question H.
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Thankfully the people that say stuff like this out loud in Baltimore just lost, badly.
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The newly restored Preston Gardens was nice while it lasted. Cars Ruin Everything Around Me.
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It's so weird that our city celebrates knocking down houses (in ways that spread toxic dust no less).
This should be a solemn acknowledgement of government failures, not a press event for the mayor to be proud of.
.@MayorPugh50 takes the first swing of the excavator to bring down this block of vacant houses on Baker Street: baltimoresun.com/news/maryla…
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This appeared on my block, across from my house, the first day of 2022.
And I actually didn't put it there myself.
Luv 2 see it.
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Baltimoreans want safer streets. They want more reliable transit options. They elected a mayor and city council members who promised this.
That's why thousands of citywide robocalls, unsolicited bulk emails, and months of ground organizing only yielded ~15 rally attendees.
If North Ave isn't the "right place" for bus infrastructure, nowhere is.
If 70+ community meetings, a 25 person resident advisory group, and thousands of street interviews isn't "sufficient outreach" for a painted bus lane, nothing is.
This is a "Change Nothing" platform.
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"Fuck You Gentrifier" - someone who has no doubt lived here for less time than the immigrant-owned business they are tagging has been here.
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On another meeting where someone said "there's no consideration for drivers in Baltimore, it's so frustrating with all the separated bike lanes going up."
Under 1% of our street network has separated bike lanes, and that's apparently tipping the balance too far.
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