Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Baltimore

It’s No Red Line, But These New Transit Lanes Will Speed Up Trips for Baltimore Bus Riders

By Stephen Miller | May 16, 2017 | No Comments

Bright red bus lanes are being painted in downtown Baltimore as the city prepares to launch a revamped bus network in just over a month.

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Civil Rights Groups Challenge Maryland Gov. Hogan’s Red Line Cancellation

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 21, 2015 | No Comments

Back in June, newly elected Maryland Governor Larry Hogan unilaterally cancelled a transit expansion project that Baltimore had been planning for a decade, transferring the state’s promised investment to road projects in more rural parts of the state. Now a coalition of civil rights groups is challenging the decision on civil rights grounds, saying it amounts […]

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Baltimore: The Consequences of Planning That Isolates Neighborhoods

By Keith Benjamin | May 11, 2015 | No Comments

Cross-posted from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership If you travel up North Mount Street between Laurens Street and Presbury Street you find the Gilmore Homes, now most infamously known as the place where Freddie Gray’s life began to slip away. I walked up North Mount, not shocked by what I saw, but filled with […]

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Will Maryland Gov-Elect Larry Hogan Kill the Red and Purple Lines?

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 7, 2015 | No Comments

Seeing shovel-ready transit projects destroyed by petty politics has been all too common the last few years (see: Scott Walker and Wisconsin high-speed rail, or Chris Christie and the ARC tunnel). Even so, this one’s a doozy. Maryland Governor-elect Larry Hogan has the power to halt two major urban transit projects that have the planning […]

Orioles Pitcher Throws a High Hard One at Car Commuting

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 8, 2008 | 10 Comments

Via Smart Growth America, I’m finally catching up to this great little story in last month’s Baltimore Sun about all of the Orioles players who are commuting to the ballpark by bike these days: Fans are accustomed to the players’ lot being filled with expensive rides — sports cars, HUVs, private jets. But you should […]

Baltimore Getting Serious About Bikes

By Damien Newton | May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

Thanks to the announcement that Baltimore will have a Ciclovia, some in the livable streets movement already know that Baltimore is changing, that there is more to Charm City than is seen in crime dramas such as "The Wire" and "Homicide." A recent visit showed me that the Ciclovia is only one of several bike […]