speed hump hell

I’d like to return to Baltimore traffic policy for just a moment. We live in an ever increasing one-way hell here in this town. Regularly, streets are turned into one-way streets forcing traffic to find another way into where it needs to go. Then the side street that is suddenly being used to get from point A to point B gets annoyed and asks the city to install speed humps. Which it does. But traffic is like a balloon – you can squeeze it off in one place, but it needs to find another place for the air to go. So the major traffic that’s been sent packing from what used to be a regular street is now shunted off onto a side street which complains of suddenly finding itself a cut-through. Speed humps are multiplying like mice here in Baltimore. I walked to the farmer’s market one Saturday down one street and when I walked home a half an hour later it had speed humps. Some sort of solution must be found that satisfies both the neighborhoods and the traffic that Baltimore requires because it has no decent public transit. I wonder when that’ll happen.