Baltimore InnerSpace

...reinventing the city

October 8, 2022

"STOP THE ROAD": Ev Paull's epic story of highway battles from the 1940s to 80s with one still raging on

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  Evans Paull's great new book, "Stop the Road " is a clear, detailed and gripping account of Baltimore's expressway batt...
April 30, 2021

Downtown Loop revival could kickstart rail system

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Briefly in the late 1990s, the region's hottest transit proposal was to build a light rail loop surrounding downtown. It even garnered a...
February 1, 2021

Three city MagLev stations that would actually work

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Thanks to the botched Draft Environmental Impact Study  report which was recently released, it's back to the drawing board to find a wor...
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January 20, 2021

Downtown Maglev station needs to move back to Phase 2

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The Draft Environmental Impact Statement has just been released for the 300 mph, $10-billion-plus Magnetic Levitation train system from Was...
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October 15, 2020

How to save Harborplace: Make it a neighborhood

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From its opening in 1980, Harborplace was an international success story. So what went wrong? Harborplace's big strength was also its bi...
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February 18, 2020

Five ways candidates should embrace city's future

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The same old answers aren't going to work for candidates in the city's upcoming election. So here is a guide to show them how to ge...
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December 23, 2019

MagLev station should cross street into Charles Center

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The latest word for the 300 mph MagLev plan under Baltimore is for the downtown station to replace the Garmatz Federal Courthouse , just no...
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October 29, 2019

"Station West" should strive to outdo Penn Station

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While the planners at the Baltimore Metropolitan Council have declared failure in the effort to build any new rail transit in their 25 year...
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Gerald Neily
Baltimore, MD, United States
I have a very definite conception of how the various pieces of Baltimore fit together, having lived here most of my life. As a whole, this mental model may be rather undigestable and complex, but Baltimore InnerSpace strives to break it down into manageable and understandable pieces. Born in 1952, moved to Baltimore in 1960 at the peak of the city's population and just prior to the completion of the Beltway and JFX and the final dismantling of the streetcar system. Got my BS and MS in Civil Engineering at Penn State and Northwestern University respectively, specializing in Transportation Planning for both. Worked for the Baltimore City Department of Planning from 1977 to 1996. Have done some consulting before and since, whether anyone wanted to hear my advice or not.
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