Would Baltimore Be Different If The Metro Subway Was Fully Built out From the 1960's plan? (Dundalk: apartment, to rent)

[james777]

Originally Posted by tan clutch

So I just read this article about the end of the Red Line proposal, that I'm sure you in this forum discussed months ago:

https://placesjournal.org/article/the-third-rail/

...because I was wondering as I read it, "has Philly recovered so nicely in part because of the relatively robust rail transit system?" There also doesn't seem to be the hostility by the outlying suburban counties to the city in the Philadelphia area versus Baltimore (I don't think there's an equivalent of Anne Arundel county devoted to blocking things here.)

You are correct in that there are a lot of factors that enabled Philadelphia to recover better than Baltimore. Not only is Philadelphia a bigger city with a population two and a half to three times that of Baltimore, it lost a smaller percentage of its population over the same period of time. In addition, I don't think Philadelphia was hit as hard by the abandoned house crisis. I have never seen sections of Philadelphia where entire blocks of row homes were boarded up, like in Baltimore.

[choccity]

Originally Posted by tan clutch

So I just read this article about the end of the Red Line proposal, that I'm sure you in this forum discussed months ago:

https://placesjournal.org/article/the-third-rail/

...because I was wondering as I read it, "has Philly recovered so nicely in part because of the relatively robust rail transit system?" There also doesn't seem to be the hostility by the outlying suburban counties to the city in the Philadelphia area versus Baltimore (I don't think there's an equivalent of Anne Arundel county devoted to blocking things here.)

This is the best written article I have read that explains what happened to transit in Baltimore and the racial divide that continues to this day.

[Hamish Forbes]

Why would people from the surrounding counties want to permit -- and probably end up paying for -- a conveyor to shuttle ghetto rats in and out of their neighborhoods? A lot of county residents left the city in order to get away from these rascals.

[seanlax]

Originally Posted by Hamish Forbes

Why would people from the surrounding counties want to permit -- and probably end up paying for -- a conveyor to shuttle ghetto rats in and out of their neighborhoods? A lot of county residents left the city in order to get away from these rascals.

Might want to take a second glance at that history book. If by 'rascals', you mean 'black people', then you are correct (and grossly insensitive).

[Hamish Forbes]

Heavens to Murgatroyd, he/she says I'm insensitive.

[PurpleHaze1100]

Originally Posted by Hamish Forbes

Why would people from the surrounding counties want to permit -- and probably end up paying for -- a conveyor to shuttle ghetto rats in and out of their neighborhoods? A lot of county residents left the city in order to get away from these rascals.

Your comments are not wanted. Leave the forum please!

[Hamish Forbes]

Originally Posted by PurpleHaze1100

Your comments are not wanted. Leave the forum please!

And he/she is not inclusive.

[Bmorebest]

Racist much Hamish Forbes?

[P47P47]

Unfortunately, anything that makes transportation quicker, easier, and more efficient, for honest people, also makes it quicker, easier, and more efficient, for criminals as well.

Do we deny that transportation to the honest people because of that fact?

[Bmorebest]

And what about other cities that have public transportation and do just fine? What makes Baltimore so frickin unique that it cannot have such public transportation?