Comments on: City makes a U-turn on Canton angle parking

By: sg

sg — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:54:23 +0000

This is a joke. Residents of Canton pay outrageous property taxes, only to come home from work to find there is no place to park their automobiles and go into their homes. The city has turned a deaf ear to this issue for years and the problem has reached crisis proportions…and now it’s about “greening” city streets? The simple solution is permit parking – I can only assume that greedy bar owners prefer that the locals be crowded out of their own neighborhoods so that partiers can park with impunity. I’ll be putting my house on the market within the year if the problem isn’t addressed — and, sadly, I couldn’t in good conscience recommend that anyone buy it.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:07:43 +0000

It just makes me worry when the City is looking out for me. That usualy means that its going to cost me more soon…

By: Alana Ridge

Alana Ridge — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:01:33 +0000

Canton does not need “outdoor living rooms”; Canton needs more parking, as do adjacent neighborhoods. Is it possible that the city is reluctant to increase the number of legal, on-street parking spaces because Canton residents are viewed as cash cows? Why else would parking officers troll Canton streets day and night to write tickets? Perhaps it is because Canton residents actually pay parking fines. Jim Kraft has repeatedly stated that Canton and adjacent neighborhoods are short thousands of parking spaces. Reverse angle parking (RAP) would not solve the problem but would at least add hundreds of desperately needed parking spaces. In addition, converting streets to one-way single lanes of traffic increases the safety for walkers, bicyclists, transit vehicles, and automobiles. The successful installation of RAP in Fells Prospect is a example of the city responding to resident needs. I suspect the city’s concerns are more related to the Red Line than “outdoor living rooms”.

By: Dub

Dub — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:01:30 +0000

The Canton community should be honored to have the city looking out from them. By taking some time and looking at a comprehensive transportation plan, Canton will be able to capitalize on greening, reducing impervious pavement, improving water quality, providing bicycle & pedestrian infrastructure while still getting the additional parking. It’s good to see Baltimore’s Transportation Department doing what cities across the world are doing – thinking beyond the steering wheel.