Ugh

People don’t understand science and basic math ?

You don’t need water towers when you’ve got druid park and lake Montebello. Serving points south.

But there are drinking water pump stations. They just redid the one at guilford. There are pumps at Hanlon park. I would guess there are more than a dozen.

“It originated as a sort of unofficial rideshare network predating Uber, when most taxis wouldn't pick up black people.”

Baltimore was (is) a segregated city. Commercial taxis didn’t generally serve black people so hacking sprung up to fill a need.

I remember my grandpa would go hack outside the grocery store on sundays after church when I was a kid.

Yeah we don’t really do a good job of defining engineer unless they’re licensed.

In most countries that’s literally not allowed.

Would we really consider that west baltimore? It’s like cheswolde. I would call the at northwest…

Yeah except then you live in Columbia. 🤮

What’s wrong with atlas?

Roca

Sweet baby jeebus

There should be a public safety department directly reporting to the mayor. In it would be bpd, parking/traffic authority, life/health/safety code enforcement division.

That’s interesting. I was thinking people were just printing fake ones out from some site. When I saw the laminated one yesterday….🤔

I def remember a holdup in 2020. But I bought a car in 2021 and was expecting to ride on my paper tags for months and I got perm ones in 3 weeks.

Or traffic safety….

I still think the city should setup a a traffic/parking auxiliary police force funded by ticketing revenue……

Most of the ones I see are expired.

Way too far for light rail. Should be a regional rail (a la septa’s regional rail) line. Run by MARC.

“So 128 extra payments that are just fees instead of actual consumed water”

It seems perhaps you don’t understand how the fee structure works? The variable consumption fee is for water/sewer use. I.e. the treated drinking water/sewage.

The infrastructure fee is to cover the maintenance of the collection system (sewers) and distribution system (water mains). It’s not a variable fee because the costs are based on assets which don’t generally change month to month.

It’s honestly a more transparent way to do billing. It decouples the cost of treating water from the cost of maintenance (O vs M).

I suspect the historically low water rates were just underfunding repairs both at the treatment plants and collection (sewers) and distribution( water mains). If you look at how much water main has been replaced per year over the last 50 years it’s been abysmal. And now we are paying for it.

Infrastructure costs money to maintain. It’s not sexy. And since politicians control these things they don’t want to look unpopular spending money to take care of stuff.

I compare atlas group to what Stephen Starr was doing in philly 20-ish years ago. Opening heavily “themed”restaurants with acceptable, sometimes interesting food - but really focusing on the experience. The Starr group has a ton of properties. They definitely catalyzed the restaurant scene in philly when it wasn’t great. Tons of chefs who have come through the Starr “system” have gone on to open their own places and philly in the long run is better for it.

I would say similar things about the Garcés group as well.

I think they should use angled mountable curbing. The fire trucks/bud can make the turns, but the average car would not enjoy the experience.

Examples?