I don’t know why everybody says it’s impossible to live without a car in Baltimore. I have been living here carless for three and a half years now, and only once was I stranded at the dollar store in Timonium.
There are both obvious and crafty ways of getting around:
1. Walking is pretty obvious, but has [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Transportation'
Carless — But Not Careless — in Baltimore
December 30th, 2009 No Comments
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Thoroughfare in Love and War
December 10th, 2009 No Comments
We never tire of saying that city living is better, but there are some ways in which Baltimore living could stand a little citification. Too much of our circulation throughout the city depends entirely on cars, an emphasis that complementarily makes life harder for those on bicycle or foot.
Transportation for America recently put out a [...]
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Are We There Yet?
July 29th, 2009 2 Comments
Here’s the story: most of us who have a choice about taking public transportation find it to be, well, inconvenient. But inconvenience is only part of it. The great thing about driving (as one recalls from one’s sixteenth birthday) is autonomy. We know that using the train or bus or government teleportation stall is more [...]
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City Living is Better – Green Cars!
July 9th, 2009 No Comments
So our beloved Baltimore isn’t quite perfect. Oh, we tend to go on about its merits ad nauseum, true, but there are some things that we still desire. A little less crime would be nice. And a city government that didn’t have corruption oozing out of its pores would be just swell. And while we [...]
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A Roundabout Roundtable.
June 2nd, 2009 No Comments
In yesterday’s link round up we pointed over to Baltimore Brew, which has an excellent post assigning effectiveness grades to each of Baltimore’s planned roundabout intersections. It’s a well-reasoned piece, even doing that so-rare Internet feat of not just complaining, but suggesting viable, perhaps better, alternatives. And while I normally don’t like to get into [...]
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Back to the Red Line: a Polemic
May 7th, 2009 No Comments
There’s plenty to say about the Red Line, the proposed extension of Baltimore’s Light Rail system which would span fourteen miles from east to west. Most of the logistical details you can find at the project’s website. And in fact you can read an entire pre-existing UDL article dealing with the debate over the Red [...]
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Baltimore City Users Guide: Commuting to D.C.
May 6th, 2009 No Comments
Every now and then, Baltimoreans have to get down to that Federal City to our south. There’s a bunch of reasons: the museums, the Mall, the restaurants, even work, maybe. But, if you’re living in Baltimore and worry that you’ll have to move down to D.C. for a new fancy job in the Obama Administration [...]
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Zero Wheels Best
April 9th, 2009 No Comments
Here’s a new toy for use in supplementing your real estate-driven daydreams. It’s a web site called walkscore.com, and it’s more or less easy to use once you get past the initially counterintuitive layout. Why, pray tell, should you care about a walk score, whatever that means? Well, I had fun typing in addresses of [...]
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City Living is Better – Cars Cost A Lot
April 9th, 2009 No Comments
Cars are pricey. Taxes, title, registration, gas, oil, parking, that one time our friend stuck his head out the window and we got a ticket for reckless driving, insurance, depreciation, whatever it is that’s draining our battery, the time we got hit and run, the cost of just buying a car in the first place… [...]
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Lobby Horse
April 8th, 2009 No Comments
Regardless of what your experience with various web sites’ terms-of-service agreements has led you to believe, your opinion matters. In fact, that’s what our whole democratic republic is supposedly based on, etc. So there’s this group called Transportation for America that wants your virtual signature on their e-petition, and they’re making it really easy for [...]
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