State Delegate
State Delegates represent districts within Baltimore City in the House of Delegates in Annapolis. They draft, sponsor, and vote on state legislation.
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CANDIDATES FOR District 41 Delegate
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Maryland and its jurisdictions should be required to “fix-it-first,” funding deferred maintenance of bridges and roads and safety retrofits like road diets, sidewalks, ADA compliance, and other infrastructure prioritizing vulnerable road users before spending on new roads and infrastructure.
As someone in trucking and transportation, the current nature of our crumbling roads and bridges contributes to extremely dangerous conditions and funding their repair will save lives and is not just a transportation choice.
Maryland should adopt a funding rubric for all transportation investment that follows a modal hierarchy prioritizing pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders over personal automobile use, and mandates that these investments prioritize racial and economic equity.
Again, this is a position devoid of the voices and experiences that must depend on the automobile. The want to continue to avoid difficult discussion around race and economics for the expediency of addressing transportation solely is the height of privilege.
Highway User Revenues continue to decrease as cars become more efficient, and semi-autonomous driving technology is allowing more comfortable long distance commutes. To address this, Maryland should introduce and income-based Vehicle Miles Traveled tax.
I don't know enough about the concept to fully agree but would love to learn more about what this looks like in practice.
What benefit would be derived from this tax? At a time when fuel prices are higher than ever and reported revenue gains are higher than ever with no explanation as to why diesel is so much more than gasoline when it is the least refined product, would point to unnecessary windfalls for the fuel industry while you want to place an additional tax on citizens.
Maryland should require and fund all-ages-and abilities bicycle infrastructure in retrofits of existing roads and construction of new roads, including fully separated infrastructure or sidepaths/trails on collector roads, arterial roads, state highways, and interstates.
I agree with the concept but would need to learn more around implementation, as I've seen the need for bicycle infrastructure and conservation efforts collide in certain instances. We have to be measured in how we implement the concept.
There has been a dramatic increase in car crashes that injure and kill people walking and biking, who are then frequently sued by a driver’s insurance. Maryland should move from a contributory negligence to a strict liability model for crashes involving vulnerable road users.
I would like to hear more about this proposal.
Paired with a requirement for income-based fines, Maryland should authorize jurisdictions to utilize additional types of automated enforcement like bus lane cameras and stop sign cameras, remove geographic restrictions, and allow a reduced threshold for triggering speed cameras.
I would need to learn more about how we put this in practice using a racial equity lens, especially when it comes to the fine amounts.
This notion of reactive penalties as opposed to proactive, well thought out, road calming design is indicative of penalizing the poor as seen by where the overwhelming number of cameras are located currently. There is zero road striping and virtually no traffic circles for the purpose of slowing traffic in Baltimore City.
Maryland should allow local jurisdictions to lower their own speed limits based on roadway typology instead of based on expensive engineering studies for each road segment, and should set a statewide upper urban speed limit of 25 miles per hour.
I agree in principle, but again, signs and cameras do less to slow traffic than the physical impediment to speeding.
Maryland should require employers provide “Parking Cash-Out,” valuing the cost of parking subsidized or paid for by employers and allowing employees the option of taking that benefit as a cash payout in the amount of the parking subsidy instead.
Also interested to hear more about this initiative.
Maryland should require jurisdictions to eliminate parking minimums and institute parking maximums in new development, as well as require the cost of parking be unbundled from rent, giving individuals the choice to rent without paying for parking.
It’s widely accepted that single family zoning advances racial and economic segregation. Maryland should ban single family zoning at the state level, allowing both single family and multifamily residences to be built in all zoning areas.
