Anthony Jeffery, head of the Department of Public Works' safety division. 'The smoke was so black and thick you couldnt even see your hand,' he says. Specifically, the states prohibit motorcycles from passing a vehicle in the same lane and riding between lanes of traffic or rows of vehicles. He jumped in a car with friends but they got stuck in gridlock traffic behind others trying to flee. Yesterday, as evening rush hour traffic inched westward along Lombard, it seemed hard to imagine Baltimore could handle many more cars.Īt some intersections as many as six cars blocked the way as traffic lights turned red, preventing cross traffic from advancing through the green light. According to the American Motorcyclist Association's website, every state except California bans the practice of lane splitting. Hundreds of vehicles got stuck causing severe traffic gridlock due to illegal parking on bothsides of the main thoroughfare for several hours at Mirpur 14. Boulevard.Īnd a recent study of pending and future office and residential developments in Baltimore, conducted by Nathanson's office, found that those projects will bring 38,000 new jobs to Baltimore in the next 15 years. Paul, Charles, Pratt, Lombard, Baltimore, Franklin and Mulberry streets and Martin Luther King Jr. The planning group, which also monitors downtown traffic congestion, has found that the downtown sections of nine streets carry more traffic than they were designed for at the peak hours of 7 to 9 a.m. "We're back to where we were in 1990, in terms of employment," said Joe Nathanson of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council.
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