From the City Paper – The Mail
I’m in total agreement with the letters of both Charlie Cooper and Tom Chalkley that the Rawlings-Blake City Hall’s bet that the Baltimore Grand Prix will be a money maker is wishful thinking (“Race to the Bottom Line,” The Mail, Aug. 24). A much more forward-looking investment would have been to upgrade all our major streets for bicycle traffic. Establishing Baltimore’s reputation as the mid-Atlantic’s most bicycle-friendly place to live would have enticed the growing, upwardly mobile, bicycling-to-work population that’s out there to put down roots here and become solid, tax-paying citizens for decades to come. Unfortunately, it seems, City Hall has chosen to remain mired in backwardness and poverty.
Herman M. Heyn
Baltimore
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