People Still Unprotected at Deadly Intersection

3 months after a MICA student was killed crossing Howard street to take the light rail, the traces of a crosswalk barely visible.
“You can see where the lines once were,” a local resident said to the Baltimore Sun, expressing concern that her daily commute means that she herself crosses this busy street twice a day [...]

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Baltimore Should be Bike Smart, too

We know Washington, DC loves to call itself a “world city” (U Street does have a lot of ethnic food joints) but today was a globally-cool day for our nation’s capital. Today, the innovative SmartBike program kicked off. As the Washington Post crowed, “Today the city will join the ranks of Paris and Barcelona with [...]

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Maximizing MARC

Our friend MARC may visit on the weekends soon.

Getting back and forth from Washington to Baltimore is improbably difficult on weekends.
For instance, this weekend, I had to convince my sister that an elderly family friend might not be around too much longer and that she, therefore, should cart me from Dupont Circle to Hunt’s Valley to see [...]

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