Neily was a transportation planner for the Baltimore City Department of Planning from 1977 to 1996, and a consultant before and since. He was born in Chicago, but his family moved to Baltimore when he was a seven-year-old transportation geek, so he got to see the Beltway being built in the early 1960s and got to ride the streetcars during their final creaky years. He also wondered why the Baltimore waterfront was so deserted, when Chicago’s was a showplace. After many years of developing alternative plans in sandboxes, chalked-up sidewalks and the basement floor, he graduated from Penn State (BS) and Northwestern University (MS), where he majored in (you guessed it) Transportation Planning. Since 2005, he has written Baltimore InnerSpace which was named “Best Urban Planning Blog” of 2008 by Baltimore City Paper.
February 3, 2012
February 1, 2012
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Baltimore’s guerrilla crosswalk artists
Transportation officials don’t like it, but Hampden residents are apparently fed up – they want cross-walks repainted on The Avenue and if the city’s not going to maintain the crosswalks on this busy north Baltimore street, they’re doing it themselves. Deborah Patterson, a former OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who runs ArtBlocks, is one of the ringleaders. [...]
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January 31, 2012
January 30, 2012
Dumping of hot metal caused Sparrows Point fire, state told
RG Steel told Maryland environmental officials today that the weekend fire that lit up the skies around Sparrows Point was caused by the disposal of hot metal from the mill’s blast furnace. “We were told that conditions relating to the idling and subsequent restart of the blast furnace led to the need to dispose of [...]
January 28, 2012
