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brutereasons t1_jdeidd5 wrote

yeah it's safe, as long as you go down Remington Ave to get in from Hampden. rather than going all the way to the bottom of Keswick and taking 29th: you want to spend as little time on 28th and 29th as possible, as they are currently extremely unsafe with speeding drivers getting into crashes with each other, pedestrians, and even buildings seemingly every other week.

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brutereasons t1_iymm66z wrote

I've taken the metro twice in the last 2 years. Both times I arrived 5 minutes before a train was supposedly arriving, and had to wait literally 45 minutes for the train to actually show, and the smell in the station was truly something else. Don't know if it was like that in the early 2010s, but I can see why people would try not to use it now

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brutereasons t1_iyfefaq wrote

So? I've been on one-way streets with buses and cars breaking down before, you can just go to the next street over. In any case, there would be space for 2 bus lanes (one in each direction), wider sidewalks, and bike lanes, because there wouldn't be taxpayer-funded parking spaces everywhere

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brutereasons t1_iwvxw0w wrote

This is actually a great example of how speed limits aren't really relevant if your street design is right - people generally drive at a speed which feels right rather than to the legal limit, and this is narrow and uneven and cluttered enough that everyone will naturally slow down anyway. We should make more Baltimore car lanes similarly narrow and cluttered!

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