Now look, the information that was actually requested! Thank you!

The garage next to the station is filled by 9am, at least when I was using it regularly. I doubt it's changed much?

And thanks for the downvote -- yay, gotta downvote people I disagree with parking about, rawr! Go get 'em.

Bummer. Well, I don’t use it as often as I used to, but I imagine this will present challenges for some people who make use of the lot.

Is there any net gain or loss to parking spaces available at the station? If that lot on Lanvale becomes the new concourse, it sounds like it may eat into parking?

This is called grifting.

It sounds like low-level grifting, not begging.

Yeah, well I can downvote too! Nyah nyah! :-P

Because almost all flights broadcast ADS-B at this point (other than some military flights), if you want to be a geek and track the Baltimore police helicopters or any other flight, I recommend checking out an app like Flightradar24.

Kind of fun, although I am one of those kinds of geeks.

So that one occurrence is all the police have used helicopters for, for what, a few decades now? Ever?

Wow, they must have a lot of fun just flying around doing nothing 99.9999999999999999% of the time!

Sorry to hear that. There was a video of a pedestrian being killed just the other day by a high-speed driver plowing into the sidewalk.

It happens a lot.

Well, we’ll see if this vacating of the vacating passes muster by the Supreme Court, or whether we’ll end up with a vacating of the vacating of the vacating kind of situation.

Oh, you changed my mind! I’m calling the Mayor’s office to tell them to take in the toxic water now. Thank a million for shifting my perspective!

I don’t disagree that Mosby probably fucked this up, and that it was done in a hasty manner.

The problem is, this is now really creating a new victim in Syed, or should I say, adding to his existing apparent victimhood, as it’s now known widely how problematic the original case against him was. He was certainly not given an adequate defense, and the investigators and prosecutors clearly ignored some evidence, and exaggerated other evidence greatly.

Except he was present via Zoom, and was heard, which apparently is not even required, but he was granted anyway. According to the article.

Boo hoo, the toxic water isn’t coming to Baltimore and you’re very sad about it. Cry me a polluted river.

I’m not missing the point, you are. The community has no reason to trust that Back River is even in a position to competently evaluate and deal with the treated water they receive from Clean Harbors. Period. We need to be able to trust the public authority to do their part of the job. Do I think Clean Harbors should be trusted without any additional, trustworthy verifications being done by authorities beholden to the public? No. And neither do the many people who objected to this.

That statement definitely gives away your general perspective, that’s for sure.

I’m going to rest satisfied in knowing that those who kowtow to corporate interests and make excuses for facilities with abysmal track records didn’t get their way this time.

Why should we trust environmental officials that are largely beholden to for-profit corporations? Are you aware of the shift in mission EPA took on in the last administration, and how many competent people left Federal government during that time?

Have you observed the state of the environment, lately? The one with massive amounts of problems, that said officials are supposed to be protecting us from?

If Back River and all aspects of the facility and its operations had an exceptional track record, do you think people would be responding this forcefully? No, they wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have made a string of calls, if I knew they were capable of even their basic mission.

I have an idea. Let’s build a massive toxic chemical containment facility on the property of everyone whose net worth is over, say, $100 million. We can build facilities sized proportionally to their net worth. We’d clean the environment up right fast, if this was the approach.

Yes, I’m not incredibly biased toward for-profit corporations with lax oversight due to working in the industry and receiving a paycheck from said corporation.

You?

So they didn’t have a random explosion a few weeks back at the facility, and haven’t had a string of problems?

Proud ignorance, indeed.

The same Back River that had a random explosion a few weeks back? They’re collocated on that property? Which we should have total faith in?

I don’t think so. And clearly, neither does the bulk of the local community.

The community has every right to be highly incredulous of private industry’s ability to behave in an environmentally friendly manner.

The community has every right to be very skeptical of Back River’s ability to safely evaluate “treated” water coming from providers such as Clean Harbors, and then deal with that water properly.

Everyone has a right to seriously question EPA’s ability to carry out their original mission, especially in the wake of being turned into an ANTI-regulation agency during the Trump administration.

If Clean Harbors doesn’t want to have these types of reactions, then maybe they should be putting more focus on getting Baltimore to fix its issues with the particular facility they are partnered with.

Communities are told left and right “this is safe, don’t worry!” Who tells us this? Large corporations and Federal agencies that clearly do not give af.

The environment is going to shit. Who’s to blame? Major polluters, the corporations. They have earned NO trust. They ONLY push for less regulation.

Fuck ‘em! I’m glad the Mayor used his power to say no.

Let’s go, I dunno, a few MONTHS maybe, without a real issue occurring at the treatment plant? Then we can decide if Baltimore should be dumping very large volumes of other people’s waste into our system.

Someone said the water coming from Ohio is said to be “borderline drinkable.” What a ridiculous load. I’d like to see them volunteer to have their own family drink it, bathe in it.

675 THOUSAND gallons in the very first round, to get handed off to a treatment facility that has earned zero trust from the community?

Yeah, no.

Get your house in order, don’t have random explosions in the past two weeks, then we’ll talk.

I have no faith that Back River is in a position to properly evaluate the “treated” waste water from a major environmental spill, before putting it back into the system. The trust has to be earned.

I don’t trust Back River to make a proper assessment of what they get back from Clean Harbors before taking the water, and either putting it into the system properly, or improperly as the case may be.