8½ minutes to cross the street

Question: What would you do if you saw this kind of trending of pedestrian fatalities:
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Well if you were Maryland you would do more things like this:
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28 traffic lanes and 8½ minutes later you are across the street!

Read more bout this crazy intersection were two pedestrians were recently seriously injured: https://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/17341/8half-minutes-to-cross-the-street/

[B’ spokes: Note the conversation came up if there’s a law that prevents you from crossing at the unmarked crosswalk… I could not find it.]

Cognitive Dissonance in Transportation Funding

by KEVIN KLINKENBERG, New Urbanism Blog


This is the cognitive dissonance that says one group of people must vote for and fund their own lifestyle choices (urbanites who use transit); while another group gets their lifestyle choices funded by everyone.

I’m actually not at all opposed to the approach used for the streetcar line. In fact, I think that it’s a much fairer way to go about funding major transportation projects that require public dollars.

I simply wonder: why don’t we do this for every major project? The primary recipients of our largesse for the Grandview Triangle are people who live within about a ten-mile radius of it. What if they had to fund its rebuilding? Would those voters have chosen to raise their own taxes for this one intersection?

https://newurbanismblog.com/cognitive-dissonance-transportation-funding/

As Trueheart is arrested today, charges were dropped yesterday against two activists arrested at City Hall in August

B’ Spokes: While not bicycling related, we do need to encourage a more open government for the citizens of this city.

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2013/01/23/activist-kim-tueheart-arrested-at-city-hall/

ACLU: City Hall bans “improper” and unconstitutional
Police spokesman says "the mayor was not involved" in keeping Kim Trueheart out of City Hall.
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2013/01/24/aclu-ban-on-activist-improper-and-unconstitutional/