{"id":218917968,"date":"2011-12-09T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=218917968"},"modified":"2011-12-09T18:32:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:32:48","slug":"opinion-10-ways-to-grow-baltimore-at-little-cost-and-with-big-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=218917968","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: 10 ways to grow Baltimore at little cost and with big benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gerald Neily &#8211;  Baltimore Brew (highlights)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Focus on the streets \u2013 They are where we perceive the city. Get heavy traffic off local streets and free them up for as much real urban-oriented activity (walking, biking, window-shopping) as possible. Avoid superblocks and fortress developments.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fix local transit \u2013 Put a fire under the MTA to tear down its happenstance bus system. Convert it into logical community-based short routes, efficient express routes and transit hubs to connect them. No more convoluted routes from Sandtown to Fort McHenry. No more endless slogs from UMBC to White Marsh.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 No more diversionary downtown gimmicks \u2013 Like 175 mph street race cars. Like Disneyfication of the Inner Harbor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorebrew.com\/2011\/12\/09\/opinion-10-ways-to-grow-baltimore-at-little-cost-and-with-big-benefits\/\">https:\/\/www.baltimorebrew.com\/2011\/12\/09\/opinion-10-ways-to-grow-baltimore-at-little-cost-and-with-big-benefits\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gerald Neily &#8211; Baltimore Brew (highlights) \u2022 Focus on the streets \u2013 They are where we perceive the city. Get heavy traffic off local streets and free them up for as much real urban-oriented activity (walking, biking, window-shopping) as possible. Avoid superblocks and fortress developments. \u2022 Fix local transit \u2013 Put a fire under &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=218917968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opinion: 10 ways to grow Baltimore at little cost and with big benefits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218917968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218917968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218917968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218917968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218917968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218917968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218917968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}