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 43a 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.
Maryland has some of the worst roads and congestion in the nation. Additionally, more than 50% of our bridges are over 50 years old. We have to prioritize maintenance, safety and effective congestion solutions over new roads.
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.
This is consistent with Maryland's recently passed commitment to dramatically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, would strengthen our communities, reduce transportation cost burdens on families, and reduce historic racial disparities.
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.
Not at a time of hyper-inflation as we are currently experiencing.
I honestly do not know much about income-based vehicle miles traveled tax to agree or disagree. I am going to read up on this a bit more. I hope I can learn from the organization about their over goal in creating and using this tax.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not only will this reduce our state's subsidy of private vehicle use, but will also make housing more affordable and allow more creative integration of developments into their communities.
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.
We touched on this during this past session in the environment and transportation committee. While I completely agree, this topic needs more conversation throughout the city, mainly, and state or we will continue to see more resistance to make this important change.
While single family residential zoning has indeed advanced racial and economic segregation and impeded affordable housing efforts, it is important to remember that for so many families in Baltimore and across Maryland their house is their greatest economic asset and source of intergenerational wealth. The State should not impose changes on communities like Baltimore but engage localities on solutions.