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After studying this page completely, please then go to the following linked page. Thank you!
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"Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits Performance (2016)
"While many countries ensure that all their citizens, regardless of where they live, have access to dependable rail or bus
services, 45 percent of Americans have no public transit at all in their communities. And when the United States does invest
in transit, or health care, or housing, we tend to spend a lot without getting anything like the results of our peer
nations.
From the Purple Line project in Maryland (which is now more than $1 billion over budget and four years behind schedule,
with an estimated final price tag of $3.4 billion and a completion date of 2026) to the Second Avenue subway
line in New York City (just the first phase took ten years and $4.4 billion to build), examples abound of expensive, never-ending
transit projects. .... No matter how much money the government invests in public transit, if we can't figure out how to build
more efficiently, we'll continue to see the same old story play out.
If we look to our peer nations across the Atlantic, we can see that they're able to build far more miles of rail transit
for a fraction of the cost. Take Spain........."
SPAIN DOES IT CORRECTLY ~ STELLAR SYSTEM!
"Unless we find ways to overcome this challenge by showing ordinary people just how much they stand to gain from increased
public investment in critical services, from housing and health care to transit, disillusionment with government will only
intensify, and our dream of a humane, democratic socialist society will grow ever more distant."
"Since the 1950s, US policymakers and politicians have built highways and parking spaces on what seems like every corner of
the country. Meanwhile, urban transit systems from Boston to San Francisco have suffered massive disinvestment and stigmatization
despite their numerous positive externalities (notably; decreased pollution and gridlock) and increasing ridership.
While subway and light-rail systems are appreciated and used by many affluent urban residents - bus systems, largely
the modes of last resort for poor and underserved communities, are stigmatized by these same urbanites."
WE PAY TOO MUCH!!!!
MTA FORCES US TO PAY TOO MUCH FOR PLACES WE DO NOT TRAVEL TO - OFFSETTING COSTS FOR MULTIPLE SURROUNDING COUNTIES. FORCED
TO PAY FOR MORE THE MOST EXPENSIVE MODES: SUBWAY AND LIGHT RAIL THAT TRAVEL NO WHERE NEAR OUR HOMES.
MEANWHILE, IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY: A FULL MONTHLY ADULT PASS COSTS $22.50. 50 CENTS LESS THAN A SENIOR/DISABILITY MONTHLY
PASS DOES IN BALTIMORE CITY, and $54.50 LESS THAN MONTLY ADULT MTA PASS. IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, SENIORS, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY,
AND KID RIDES ARE ALL - FREE.
The Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act of 2013 forces The Maryland Transit Administration to increase fares every
two years. - State of Maryland
"Fare collection resumed on all Montgomery County Ride On buses on Aug. 1. The one-way pre-pandemic fare, which was $2
per ride, is now $1 for all Ride On buses including the Flash (express). Monthly passes, which were $45 per rider,
are now $22.50 - yes, adult riders."
Montgomery County MCDOT and Ride On: Full Monthly passes:$22.50. ALWAYS FARE FREE FOR Seniors and those
with Disability. Maryland Transit Administration Monthly Passes: Full:$77.00 Senior/Disability Fare $23.00.
WASHINGTON D.C. GOES FARE FREE TOO! JULY 1ST, 2023
Implementation has been delayed.
"D.C. Votes to Eliminate Metrobus Fares in Movement Toward Free Transit" - The Washington Post (December 6th, 2022)
SEEK HERE: WHO ELSE IN U.S.A. HAS GONE FARE FREE!
THREE AND A HALF AN HOURS - AT LEAST
It takes 4 different public transportation systems, and so pay 4 separate times to go from Baltimore City to Montgomery County,
and vice versa. MTA -> MARC to Union Station -> Metro Subway -> Ride On / Metro Bus. Cost? At least $23.00 each way.
Want to go for Thanksgiving? No MARC so buy an AMTRAK ticket from Baltimore to Washington D.C. - which can be even near
$80.00 each way, depending on how full. So many go without family Thanksgiving. 2022 was finally a time to be together
in person too after 2 years not due to Covid-19. This is a true occurrence - a true story. The saddest part = their family
shamed them for not having the money instead of helping them of other means.
"Traffic Incidents and Events" - MDOT
Current Traffic Map - Sigalert
BALTIMORE CITY GOVERNMENT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: THE CHARM CITY CIRCULAR
[FREE FREE FREE FREE!!!! SORRY, NOT FOR YOU, YOU, AND YOU!!!! YOU MAKE TOO LITTLE SO PAY PAY PAY AWAY FOR MTA IN YOUR POOR
POOR POOR NEIGHBORHOODS!]
| NOPE! NOT A SINGLE PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO FIND!????? |
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| WHERE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO: MARC TRAIN LIGHT RAIL, SUBWAY, TONS OF MTA BUSES, BOATS, OR SHIPS |
OF Course in Jest! Most accessible place to get to with public transportation in entire State of Maryland!
CHARM CITY CIRCULAR
"The backbone of any great city is transportation. The Charm City Circulator (CCC), a fleet of 24 free shuttles that
travel four routes in the central business district of Baltimore City, Maryland. The Harbor Connector (HC) is an extension
of the CCC and is the City’s free maritime transit service {boats} connecting 6 piers through four vessels."
The above statement was written a long time ago. The 4 routes go well south to Fort McHenry, west to Mount Clare Junction,
East to southern Fells Point, and North to northern Charles Village. "Oh I never pay, never go on MTA. I either ride my
bike or take free bus" says the residents of Locust Point, at Fort McHenry, banishing the thought of ever paying for MTA 94
whose bus stops are graced in front of their homes. The Charm City Circular also goes to Riverside Park, a swanky upscale
neighborhood that MTA services with number 71. The MTA Silver, Green, and 51 also have few to no riders to Charles Village.
Why take the Brown, Navy, and many other busses when Free Free Free for Fells Point?
Redundancy is a problem. These 4 City Circular routes serve predominately well-to-do Caucasian people, while people in the
financially poor neighborhoods have no choice - pay for MTA - state service is - is a HUGE problem, as it is segregationist,
classist, and racist. Colleges and Universities run their own shuttles, U of Maryland, MICA, and Johns Hopkins with 3 different
types. This population go to the very same places that the City Circular go - Green Route. People who come to Baltimore
are treated to this "free" transportation too. So insult to injury, people who do not live here pay no property taxes are
perceived as "better - more deserving" people by Baltimore City Government. Charm City Circular is now in second decade of
Baltimore City Government practicing classist, segregationist, and racist means upon its citizens. It is simply only a matter
of time till a lawsuit is filed....
FREE TO MORE WELL TO DO NEIGHBORHOODS Segregation, Classism, and racism, at its finest....
"The Charm City Circulator celebrates 10 years, but many in Baltimore are not in a partying mood" = Greater Greater (2020)
Baltimore City Department of Transportation
Baltimore Complete Streets Manual [First & Final March 2021]
REGARDING CITY CIRCULAR
Baltimore City Government contends its most redundant bus service possible in all of Baltimore City: covering same pathways
of MTA bus routes, University of Maryland buses, MICA shuttles, and Johns Hopkins multi bus fleets and Blue Jay shuttles,
is the following:
"The routes prioritize the neighborhoods with the highest percentage of households who don't have cars and close gaps
in places where MTA buses don't cover with the circulator's service area."
NOTHING CAN BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. BALTIMORE CITY GOVERNMENT, THIS IS A BOLDFACED LIE. MOSTLY "Well-To-Do" are served
who love to say, "I SAVE MONEY ON PARKING, I NEVER HAVE TO PAY, OR GO ON DIRTY MTA."
1. City Circular routes cater to colleges and Universities, yet, are least population to ride. Why?
Maryland Institute College of the Arts (Served by subway and light rail too), University of Maryland (Served by subway and
light rail too), and Johns Hopkins University are main 3. All of their college students have plentiful free transportation
from their colleges and universities, and hospitals. Most offer door to door; meaning from your front door to closest pathway
to your classes, internship, or even working location (post-college).
2. Silver, Navy, Yellow, and many more main MTA buses have longer routes, with Charm City Circulars stealing ridership because,
"Free"
3. ADVERTISING BUDGET? [Progressive Voices is one] Charm City Circular is running advertisements on radio via national -
local catering through ISP live streams. Why does a "FREE BUS" have to advertise???? Why is Baltimore City government spending
money in this way? Grants not for more routes, but for advertising? The buses already state, "Free." A bus does not equate
tourism. The ad is not targeted to tourists, but locals who may not know there is a, "Free Bus." Frankly, Streetcars attract
- and busses repel tourists.
4. NOT ONE SINGLE ROUTE CATERS TO MISSING MTA ROUTE
There are whole scathes of neighborhoods who no longer have any busses. More and more cutting of stops make even stops apart
dozens of streets, all in the name of, "Make bus go faster." Bus can never go faster - ill to be on time. Getting rid of
traffic - cars makes bus be able to be on time.
5. NEIGHBORHOODS
Charles Village, Fells Point, Federal Hill, Locust Point, Fort McHenry, Riverside, Otterbein... Are these impoverished neighborhoods
who lack $ for automobiles, or - "WELL-TO-DO GENTRIFIED"????
REAL AGENDA LATER DOWN PAGE DISCOVERED: "The Plan will identify opportunities where the Charm City Circulator and Harbor Connector
services can improve transportation routes and equity within the Charm City Circulator and Harbor Connector service
capacity."
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| FREE TRANSPORTATION FOR WORKING "COMMUTERS" ONLY ~ INCLUDES BALTIMORE |
One "FREE TRANSPORT" Day - "World
"'World Car Free Day' is an initiative encouraging motorists to take a break from driving and explore alternatives like public
transit. Whether using buses or trains to travel for work, school, health care or recreation, riders will have plenty of options
to experience the many benefits of public transportation. Additionally, by choosing transit, riders will help to decrease
roadway congestion and vehicle emissions throughout the region.
Throughout the weekend, riders can ride transit free to the world famous Artscape street festival, the Baltimore Ravens home
game against the Indianapolis Colts, the acclaimed play “The Wiz” at the Hippodrome Theatre or visit Baltimore
standards such as the Walters Art Museum, the National Aquarium, Fort McHenry National Monument and the American Visionary
Art Museum.
If you’re a regular rider – enjoy the free ride throughout the September 22-24 weekend. If you’re trying
transit for the first time, visit mta.maryland.gov or the Transit app to plan your trip. The Transit app, a free download
for smartphones, will offer guidance, including which bus routes are diverted and which stops are closed due to road closures.
According to the American Public Transportation Association, households that give up the use of one car realize savings of
about $10,000 annually. Taking transit also eliminates the expense and hassle of parking, and allows passengers to focus on
activities that driving won’t allow, like working, reading or relaxing without the need to focus on safety."
AND GET LESS THAN LITTLE!!!!
Governor Hogan Administration touts "accomplishments":
"IN THE LAST 5 YEARS: MDOT MTA built {streets painted red} 5.5 miles of dedicated bus lanes, installed real-time
information signs at 6 multi-modal transfer locations, and built the West Baltimore MARC transfer center."
MTA List Section: VITAL 32 MTA TRUTHS: Charges, Challenges, & Solutions.
Cities all around the world, even entire countries, are realizing that a free transit system makes not only reduction of traffic
and pollution, but economic sense. The United States is no different: Savannah, Missoula, Iowa City, Kansas City... The
country of Luxembourg is similar in size and population to Baltimore City. If Luxembourg can do it, Baltimore
can have free transit too.
Maryland Transit Administration (MTA)
1. Operation costs mostly paid from taxes anyways.
2. Operation costs VASTLY reduced by illuminating the industry of money: collecting money, the people who count the
money, printing tickets, purchasing money collection, the people who deal with complaints and processing refunds due to computer
errors (credit), people who validate, process, and take pictures for disability passes, needless card reader machines, and
mechanics to fix the money collection machines....
3. Social Equality. To no longer label people due to their age or disability. People become equal. Free Transportation
for All.
4. End to Food Deserts - No one should have to pay to travel to get better nutrition (as convenience stores don't/can't
offer) reach farmer markets and grocery stores that have less expensive prices. Convenience stores continue to make record
profits with little nutritious options; mostly frozen and canned options. Especially effects people, seniors and disabled
who live on so little via public assistance....
5. Broken Fair Boxes - Many times the fair boxes are not working on buses, and if the bus is late, the bus driver signals
for people to just get on, and not process their bus pass or pay. Bus drivers often give people free rides anyways.
6. Subway Styles People jump subway styles, and more and more often the styles are set open, whether there is an attendant
or not.
7. "FREE" makes more people ride, evidenced by Charm City Circular. "Free" naturally entices people to use transit,
at least for short trips. All over the U.S.A. and worldwide, transit goes free - even from the start, like Tampa. Kansas
City, and Omaha.
8. BIGGEST REASON: Less vehicles with tires carbon emissions. Carbon emissions from exhaust pipes and tire erosion
(6PPD): both bond to ground ozone.
9. Ease - Greatly reduces traffic congestion. Drivers should LOVE! Free transit from where people actually live -->
Less road congestion - less traffic --> less pressure on roads --> making less road repairs needed.....
10. Need for new Road and Highway expansions will cease (Which costs bankrupt), leaving only maintenance costs, with
balance going to transit. Now the sliver of the pie will be highways instead of the sliver forever being public transit.
The majority of Maryland State budget continues to go to automobile projects if priority is not changed to all being able
to get where they want to go, not where MTA dictates.
11. Fighting Traffic Congestion is and has always been a losing battle: 3.4 Billion for 2021, and 4.1
Billion for 2023. - Maryland Department of Transportation 2022 Annual Attainment Report on Transportation System Performance
[Page 21]
12. Transit Transfer Coordination MTA does not coordinate buses so that one can transfer to another bus, light-rail,
or subway. Each MTA route is planned and then start times from each direction are chosen. Then the other stops to final
destination are filled in. That is the end of MTA involvement of providing bus transit. It is pure coincidence if
MTA busses run so often that one does not have to wait for more than 10 minutes, usually only during rush hour, if at all.
In Switzerland, the tiniest of towns have streetcars (trams) and trains every 30 minutes, meticulously timed to transfer,
with dedicated riders. [Of course, "Timed like a Swiss Clock."}
13. Baltimore Region is Too Large, and have Too Varied Interests The area MTA is attempting to support is too
large, and does not serve any jurisdiction, especially Baltimore City well at all, except for commuters and segregated transit:
subway and light-rail, of which they drive to, so they already have a mode of transportation.
14. Baltimore City Neighborhood Connectors Baltimore City needs neighborhood connector routes: a cluster of neighborhoods
serviced by one route, allowing all to reach all nature-connecting places and amenities quickly.
15. Baltimore Region Connectors The neighborhood connectors bring people to several swift routes, making waiting time
to final destination close to nil, as the swift will be sitting their for immediate boarding.
16. No Money Loss Zero chance of anyone ever stealing MTA fare box monies, like MTA employee: $400,000 in 2009.
17. Retrieve "car storage" space for Retail and Homes Since the buses will be free, looking at reducing parking spaces
at Rogers Avenue Station to build some housing there would be beneficial.
18. MTA has had 52 years. More than ever segregates via racist and classist (carless) routes. Light-rail for people with
cars. Buses for poor. Many neighborhoods with no longer service. Since 1970, the State of Maryland has had 52 years
to remove segregation and racism by building a transit system that gave service to all, instead of listening to certain parties
and intentionally remove service from certain apartment complexes, light-rail stops, and offer specialized bus service to
certain private schools, while the general public were not allowed. Instead of more service, MTA has cut service, causing
even more people to not take its buses. MTA cut every other bus stops to ever 3rd block, to even every 4th block. MTA took
the streetcar-based routes which were converted to bus routes starting after WWII, and in 2017 destroyed all but a few of
those routes. The MTA designer of, "Baltimore Link" resigned, and no one has attempted, now 5 years later, to restore the
service. While all the streetcar tracks were still intact, in 1970, MTA should of restored the streetcars, which build the
suburbs, of which General Motors, Standard Oil, Firestone, and Phillips Petroleum-backed National City Lines bought 46 cities,
including Baltimore's transit stash. Stealing the perfect electric transportation. The Supreme Court voted that Sherman
Act was broken, that National City Lines was a monopoly. General Motors was fined %,001 dollars, and the others only 1 dollar.
Baltimore having its own complete transportation system again.
19. 6PPD-quinone = Toxic Tire Carbon Emission In 2020 Chemical 6PPD was found to kill fish, and almost killed all Coho
Salmon. Amongst 2,000 hardening tires chemicals, 6PPD bond with ground ozone creating 6PPD-Quinone carbon emissions. All
emission research and projections are now outdated. Tired-vehicles, though battery or hydrogen powered, still will and do
emit carbon emissions, with some evidence that it be more than exhaust. Busses can no longer be used: weight: for battery
and water cooling system being up to 2,000 more pounds, digging cobalt and lithium dirty with child-labor used, used tires,
and batteries have toxic chemicals and hard to take apart for recycling. Hydrogen celled overall are less costly, but don't
have good salespeople.
20. End duplicity, redundancy of overlapping routes There are several buses that travel the same very streets and pick
up few people, while other neighborhoods have no transit at all. Charm City Circular and MTA - all have bus stops of both.
Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, and Maryland Institute College of the Arts run their own buses and van service, even
to their houses for their students and faculty.
21. Tourist Make one route that takes people to all the tourist attractions, including the Great Blacks Wax Museum,
Enoch Pratt Free Central Library instead of what is current. Fore fill the original purpose.
24. While Streetcars are being re-implemented, Redesign bus routes Allow people to get to services in their own neighborhoods,
rather than straight down one large street only. I have some ideas: how to run twice as many buses in half the time currently.
The biggest issue: waiting time.
25. Buses cannot fore fill the needs of passengers. It takes about 4 minutes for a patron with a wheelchair to board,
and addition 4 minutes to de-board, is wasteful for anyone. Only two bicycles can ride, if bus has front feature. Streetcars
allow unlimited amount of passengers, and roll-on and roll off freedom. Too many overcrowded people on a bus, and too little
seats cause arguments, even physical fights. [People even from near the back of the bus threw ice at me, and a girl got hit,
so the mother punched me in the face and teeth. The Gold Bus - Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019. Ironically, I was on my way to
Penn-North Library to see the North Avenue MTA plan.]
platforms for quicker entry.
26. Light rail needs their streetcars to be the kind that one can enter without stairs or raise the platforms. Continues
to make hardship for people without wheelchairs that have physical challenges, use canes, especially when with luggage, and
for anyone regardless, because people shop. Stairs on light-rail cars is archaic.
27. Rapid Emission Reduction = Mass Streetcars and Trains Look at Europe. Look at India. Look at China. Look at
the Arabic countries. [Seek pages, "Streetcar Routes Today" and "World Transit"]
28. Highway and road expansions cost WAY too much, and traffic only will and always grows to fill the lanes anyways,
thereby expanding again....
29. MTA bus routes were made shorter, and took away paper transfers, forcing people to pay twice to continue ride.
30. MTA discriminates against people who want or need to use cash. The "Charm Pass," started in 2018. Enticed with
free 90-minute transfers. So one can make a round trip - one way trip of it - completely free.
31. MTA "Light rail" projects include destruction of acres of trees, animal habitat (no where to go - killed by automobiles,
trucks, busses...) for parking lots.
32. RED LINE FALLACY: "ELLICOTT CITY LIGHT RAIL STOP" IS A SUPER BIG PARKING LOT ALONG TO HIGHWAY INTERSECTION ROUTE 29.
NOT MAIN STREET --> OLD ELLICOTT CITY.
Since last streetcar on June 19, 1955, there has been no public transit for people from Baltimore to go to "Ellicott City"
- "Old Ellicott City" and MTA intends to still keep it that way. Given the plans, RED LINE will still never go to
"Old Ellicott City." After over 68 years (2023), STILL, never allowing still no one from Baltimore to travel by
public transportation to get to and from Ellicott City (Ellicott Mills). This is classism, racism, and segregationist
Maryland Transit Administration (MTA).
"Saving Transit from a Death Spiral" - RM Transit (February 18th, 2023)
"Some U.S. Cities May Offer Model to Ease Canada Transit Violence: Experts" - Vanderhoof Omineca Express (2023)
"Why Navigating Transit With Your Telephone is Hard" - RM Transit
How to Get to "Old" Ellicott City - hint, "Driving Only" directions
"MDOT MTA Announces 90-Minute Free Transfers with Use of New CharmPass Mobile Ticketing App" - With Fancy Chips....
"I work for the ATM, not the MTA"
- May's Daughter October 11th, 2022 - Pink on Yellow Bus
PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN WANT TO WORK FOR MARYLAND TRANSIT.
Another reason to get rid of all "Money" Jobs. FARE FREE. PAY FOR PARKING. People do not want to work far away from
their homes, due to "Regionalism" and congestion.
"Report Finds Maryland Transit Agency Suffers From Under-Staffing and High Vacancy Rates" - Maryland Matters (December 9,
2022)
MONEY IS BIG MONEY
Subway Attendants
Money and Credit Card Counters
Administration specific for transit money collection
Machinists to service and repair ticket machines and fare boxes
Ticket Machines
Bus Fare Boxes
Turnstiles
Maintence for Turnstyles...
Some "Money" Jobs:
MONEY COUNTER SALARIES: Estimated total pay for a Money Counter at Maryland Transit Administration is USD 57,744 per year.
The breakdown is as follows: Base pay USD 47,810 per year. Additional pay is USD 9,934 per year. Additional
pay includes cash bonus, commission, tips, and profit sharing. - According to Glass Door [Though should be public record,
MTA chooses to share little with its true employer; Maryland public taxpayers.
Money Counter Salary: Maryland Transit Administration (MTA)
Deputy Director Treasury and Fare Collection Salary $81,048.00 - $130,366.00 Annually Job Type: Full Time Department: Maryland
Transit Administration Place: Baltimore City Job Number: 8031-MTA-1/22
MONEY FOR MONEY: "This fare system upgrade/replacement implementation is scheduled to proceed through 2025. This position
is responsible for an annual office budget of $10 million and a capital budget of approximately $2-5 million. ....
This position is responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of reconciliation procedures for cash ($60
million), smart card, mobile apps, credit cards, and other revenue streams. The deputy is responsible for reviewing and analyzing
ridership and revenue numbers from the fare collection system. ....
The Deputy Director also manages three multi-year $2-5 million task order contracts for agency use. This allows individual
departments to request consultant assistance as needed."
"Bus Stop Rightsizing" - Maryland Transportation Administration (MTA) [Attempting to mark bus stops properly - while getting
rid of stops]
THIS - IS - WAR!!!!
"The project had been difficult. To keep land costs down, the alignment followed the tracks of an abandoned interurban train
line — convenient but not necessarily optimal. ....
On my visit, I was joined by a single person waiting for the next city-bound train {actually light rail}. When it eventually
arrived, one other rider disembarked, heading for a waiting shuttle bus. The train {light rail} car was mostly empty, reflective
of ridership that even before Covid-19 had never met its targets."
"While the local political winds have shifted, the fear, privilege and suburban aversion to anything 'urban' haven't gone
anywhere. ....
Systemic anti-transit land-use policies are common across the US. In a peculiar circular logic, transit opponents
often use the poor state of current transit service as an argument against expansion or improvement."
RED LINE "DISGUISED" for Baltimore City is NOTHING MORE THAN FAST BALTIMORE COUNTY EAST-WEST "BYPASS" well-to-do South-Eastern
Baltimore, and Chicago-based Edmonson Village Shopping Center owners
Red Line Maryland Website
Commentary: "Government Officials Need to Do More to Protect Mature Forests - and Fight Climate Change" - Maryland Matters
(2023)
LAST MTA "Redline" Meeting: Tuesday, August 1st Hampstead Hill Academy 500 South Linwood Avenue (Eastern Avenue)
Navy Bus 3-7 PM 410-396-9146
2015 Tunnel portion of Red Line was 40% (over $1 billion) of total cost (of course, more now)
STATE OF MARYLAND TAX MONEY ABUSE FOR EXCESSIVE NON-TRANSPORT
"Resilience 2050" = Automobile Catering - more than ever: Widening Highways... Shorter "Red Line" that
also caters to drivers [Current Light rail stops dictate that will be near even fewer people's homes in walking distance]
Page 14: According to the Baltimore Metropolitan Board, The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board, and its Metropolitan
Planning Organization for the Baltimore Region, public transportation is only "mandatory" public transportation
to go to work and attend school, including universities. This means, doctor appointments, purchasing medicine, purchasing
food, purchasing necessary clothing due to weather.... basic - essential needs to function - to have a life in order to prepare
to go to schools and work is deemed, even to return home from school or work is deemed, "non-mandatory."
This means, doctor appointments, purchasing medicine, purchasing food, purchasing necessary clothing due to weather.... basic
- essential needs to function - to have a life in order to prepare to go to schools and work is deemed, even to return
home from school or work is deemed, "non-mandatory."
Try to tell that to a car driver, that they are not allowed to use their car for these tasks, for they are luxury - "optional"
trips. Those who are in authority do not use public transportation, and only want car-centric regional rail transit. Clear-cut
for acres of parking lots for their "precious" automobiles.
"Not I!!!! I would never be caught dead on a low-life grimy bus!"
"Not I!!!! I will never, ever be caught even dead on a low-life grimy bus!"
In order for Baltimore City to have a true chance of a successful future, Baltimore City Transportation Department must be
completely independent, to properly address its own citizen's needs for its Commons, without pressure and influence of suburb
priorities - especially for using Baltimore City as throughway from one bordering county to another.
and being able use the Baltimore Reginal Cooperative Purchasing Committe for purchases. of any regional or state controlling
bodies who manipulate and continue to advocate (City Council approving every for state control for their own needs, and so,
is not able to properly address its own citizen's needs. The biggest takeover occurred in 1970 when the State of Maryland
took over Baltimore City's public transportation. As regional overlapping and state of Maryland priorities continue, in recent
years "Baltimore Metropolitan Council," - Baltimore Regional Transportation Board (BRTB)" is the "Metropolitan Planning Organization
(MPO)" which made 13 members with 8 of 9 "voting" members overburden Baltimore City Mayor's vote. "The BRTB is a 13-member
board representing the cities of Annapolis and Baltimore, the counties of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard
and Queen Anne's, as well as the Maryland Department of Transportation, the Maryland Department of the Environment, the Maryland
Department of Planning, the Maryland Transit Administration, and Harford Transit." See how confusing this is already?
more than ever loom, with few deciding for many, and it is always for car-centric priorities. Baltimore City's streets were
built for streetcars and carriages, not for any other vehicles, and must be returned to street-centric - people-centric use.
and public transportation being completely separate and Baltimore City only controlled, and will always be lopsided, Most
"projects," meaning money allocated are for roads: road resurfacing, rehabilitation, and restructuring roads, and road bridges.
On Orleans Street, from Washington Street to Ellwood Avenue Estimated Total Cost: $11,500,000, Eleven and a half MILLION
DOLLARS for only 4,500 feet of "Road resurfacing/rehabilitation"
There is not a single project, absolutely nothing to save pedestrian lives - Continuous Sidewalks....
Having several layer transportation bureaucracies, Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC), Baltimore Regional Transportation
Board (BRTB), and also Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) and Maryland Department of Transportation is not only counterproductive
and overlapping, but also quite costly to pay so many people (and attend conferences) when Baltimore City has its own transportation
system.
Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC)
Baltimore Regional Transportation Board (BRTB)
Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA)
Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC)
????? "The Transit Question: Baltimore Regional Transit Needs Assessment" Report (2015) ?????
Chesapeake Bay Memorial Bridge Section for MDTA
Excessive Million Monies Given Specifically to Airport Bathrooms [Not transportation of any kind]
"BWI-Thurgood Marshall Airport’s newest restrooms feature fully-enclosed stalls for privacy, technology that indicates
toilet availability and occupancy, ample room for luggage and a sleek, modern design — luxuries that might earn
them the title of greatest in the nation, if they can flush away the competition in this year’s 'America’s Best
Restroom' contest.
'We put a lot of effort into planning and designing these restrooms,' said Maryland Aviation Administration Executive Director
and CEO Ricky Smith, who oversees operations at BWI. 'Obviously, it would be neat to win. I think that would be a source of
pride for a lot of people.'
As part of a $55 million renovation project for which construction kicked off in late 2021, three restroom sets have
opened in concourses B, C, and D. Another three will open by the end of this year, according to Smith."
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TES, We Worst Because of no Streetcars and Trains. YES Virginia has invested millions - into trains and Streetcars. When
will you learn lobbying organization, that more highways never bring more business growth - only more induced traffic - more
congestion? When will you be satisfied - for the narcissistic love for you and your inanimate killing machine?
"Our neighbors in Northern Virginia have invested billions of dollars in their state’s transportation and infrastructure
improvements. These improvements have resulted in businesses relocating and higher paying jobs for citizens. Maryland has
not made these improvements. We have fallen behind."
Never will be enough - When learn?
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