8½ minutes to cross the street

Question: What would you do if you saw this kind of trending of pedestrian fatalities:
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Well if you were Maryland you would do more things like this:
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28 traffic lanes and 8½ minutes later you are across the street!

Read more bout this crazy intersection were two pedestrians were recently seriously injured: https://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/17341/8half-minutes-to-cross-the-street/

[B’ spokes: Note the conversation came up if there’s a law that prevents you from crossing at the unmarked crosswalk… I could not find it.]

Cognitive Dissonance in Transportation Funding

by KEVIN KLINKENBERG, New Urbanism Blog

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This is the cognitive dissonance that says one group of people must vote for and fund their own lifestyle choices (urbanites who use transit); while another group gets their lifestyle choices funded by everyone.

I’m actually not at all opposed to the approach used for the streetcar line. In fact, I think that it’s a much fairer way to go about funding major transportation projects that require public dollars.

I simply wonder: why don’t we do this for every major project? The primary recipients of our largesse for the Grandview Triangle are people who live within about a ten-mile radius of it. What if they had to fund its rebuilding? Would those voters have chosen to raise their own taxes for this one intersection?
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https://newurbanismblog.com/cognitive-dissonance-transportation-funding/

As Trueheart is arrested today, charges were dropped yesterday against two activists arrested at City Hall in August

B’ Spokes: While not bicycling related, we do need to encourage a more open government for the citizens of this city.

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2013/01/23/activist-kim-tueheart-arrested-at-city-hall/

ACLU: City Hall bans “improper” and unconstitutional
Police spokesman says "the mayor was not involved" in keeping Kim Trueheart out of City Hall.
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2013/01/24/aclu-ban-on-activist-improper-and-unconstitutional/