Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 04/09/2026Underground the power lines in pop density >10k/mi so this happens less often! 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 13/08/2026I never like the argument that floors means its not human scale. The Baltimore War Memorial is imo not human scale - all the doors are way bigger than you, it makes me feel like im in a giants house. But thats the point. You can also design tall things to feel smaller too if you want. Just build. 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 07/08/2026is there going to be a way to report parked vehicles with va plates you know are owned by residents of md? 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 17/07/2026Its 100 minutes from BWI via NE Regional to Philly City Hall at the center, just the air train from PHL is 30 minutes to get there. You aint getting on and off a plane in 70 minutes even if it went supersonic. And thats starting at the airport. 120
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 18/05/2026Ahhh Baltimore St there used to be a cool pedestrian mall. It looks like they tried to bring back "business" when ped traffic took a downturn by converting it back into a partial car road rather than the actual solution which is dense walkable housing around the corridor. 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 12/05/2026@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social MD should buy the DC streetcars to supplement the light rail while we wait for the new vehicles that will take years. Even if they can't run at the track grades outside downtown, we could at least run these on the Penn Camden shuttle maybe? www.govdeals.com/en/asset/352...govdeals.com 152
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 28/04/2026What cdl licensing programs are around for those interested in getting the license in order to apply? 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 10/04/2026Here's some more slop the AI spit out for the concept. Seriously though, think big and make it the most friendly destination for people getting on and off the metro to live and do stuff at! 071
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 10/04/2026@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social I was talking to a friend who has unreasonable access to AI and he had fun with a crayon I gave him for Reistertown Station. In particular - axe Wabash Ave! It ends at Patterson Ave anyway! Even the AI struggled to take it out. 194
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 03/04/2026Oh and create a flyover junction with the NEC and rebuild BWI station closer to the airport with 4 stop tracks where the Camden Line joins and branches from that merged station. Then run Penn line trains that don't pass thru Penn to Camden. 020
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 03/04/2026Eminent domain, widen to four tracks the whole way, grade separate, electrify the outer tracks, 150mph aluminum body light trainsets running every 15 minutes. 130
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 25/03/2026Developer wants to redevelop it. Its generally good stuff planned. 031
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 26/02/2026disclaimer 2: we "think" it scores 98, I was explained the scoring and I did the math myself based off the gis data, might not be the exact #, still just hoping for a note saying "we at mta would love a shelter here but no money if Mount Clare can find someone to install it we appreciate it!" 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 26/02/2026(context: I'm Mount Clare Community Association president, neighbors want a shelter there, trying to make it happen - just want a letter from MTA recommending it and I can try to get UMB or one of our other anchors to pay for the install) 010
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 26/02/2026@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social sorry for doing three in one day but I just got home from a Red Line Community Advisory Team meeting - MTA employee says stop ID 10996 aka Wilkens Ave & Gilmor St WB scores 98 for a shelter and that the best way to get a letter to take to anchors to pay for it is to @ you 300
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 25/02/2026ps im sending this with 2 bars id love to donate some home routers to setup in the underground just to have some working internet down here waitin for the train, im well equipped to have a banner article to read once its in motion 🙏 130
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 25/02/2026@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social big cluster of lights out in Charles Center and a sus concrete crack up there too. Realize our state of good repair is more state of good suggestion but ill be bugging annapolis for lightbulbs and caulk next Month! 210
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 02/02/2026Lets turn Baltimore into the Vero Beach of the north, retirement condo towers all around the harbor with wheelchair and scooters with seats accessible cycletracks. We already have the best bomb ass Sunday breakfast at Southside Diner but its in a strip mall with a car moat and no transit access. 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 21/11/2025shot towers my favorite station aesthetic, hope someone revives an apartment / condo with commercial project on top of it in the future 130
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 14/11/2025@electryandorsey.bsky.social 2026 legislative agenda 🙏 So many abandoned corner properties in Southwest that were legacy corner stores but because of the insane hoops to try to get the r8 overlay nobody seems willing to gamble on. 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 14/11/2025He also basically built red line alt 3 intuitively and called out the MTA for not taking it seriously 🤣 This probably just got him my vote permanently. I want to volunteer for his campaign now. If only he took bike lanes seriously as an access equity move for the butterfly. 030
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 07/11/2025@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social ive been on and off the metro several times this morning and the reliable <10 min frequencies are appreciated, give metro duvision my regards and praise i know it's been a rough month ♥️ 130
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 26/08/2025How do we bring back Baltimores after it got ripped out after only 3 years? 130
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 10/08/2025@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social hate to see this on a Sunday morning but someone smashed the bus shelter at Fayette & Calhoun next to Vivien T Thomas high school. 160
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 17/07/2025@jahorne.bsky.social take the towards zero southwest quick build survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/QuickBuild25surveymonkey.comToward Zero: Quick Build ProjectsTake this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free. 020
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 03/07/2025Extend the orange to west baltimore marc! one seat from fells to a marc station and major bus hub and major transit equity for Southwest that doesn't have an mta bus that goes there between the 26 and orange. 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 03/07/2025like being offline for 5-15 mins waiting for a train vs being offline for the 1-2 minutes between stations in the tunnels is a big diff, and QoL wise it sucks to be waiting offline more than being in motion offline. I wonder if bmore digital equity would help. 020
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 03/07/2025@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social we really, really need wifi or 5g in at least the underground stations if not tunnels of the metro - I've heard its ludirously hard / expensive to work in the tunnels so just the stations foe now? Just put some APs in the conduit channels in station ceilings. 120
Reposted by Melanie Scheirerrobo!!! @robonya.bsky.social · 31/05/2025come see it at your local times square 12630108
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 17/06/2025I figured out it wasn't coming and then realized the radio was announcing it but was way too quiet! Excited to get to ride it soon though. Very convenient in the station. 020
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 17/06/2025@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social the road noise from 83 and charles makes it impossible to hear announcements on the radio at penn station 110
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 13/06/2025dumbasssery will continue until brawndo is in the water fountains 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 02/06/2025Theres a totally gutted empty collapsed rowhouse on the 1400 block of Baltimore St where the sidewalk has bern blocked for months by fencing to keep that failing facade standing. Its nightmarish the commitment to old bricks over actual people. 020
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 22/05/2025I could build platform screen doors out of Second Chance old wood doors and a spring for like $500. 030
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 13/04/2025@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social Are these southbound Navy stops missing? The online schedule map doesn't have Calhoun & Fayette or Carey & Hollins but the bus stops at them, and without them it has an 8 block gap without any stops. They're not in Transit, Google, or the MTA schedule online. 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 03/04/2025if she was so good why didnt she kick the container ship in the nuts ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 020
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 01/04/2025Quad track the Camden Line, electrify the outer rails, build the Penn-Camden connector, run 15 minute frequency automated trains on the dedicated tracks along it while freight trains use the inner tracks. Camden Line could be transformative for all of Maryland. 020
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 29/03/2025@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social @jahorne.bsky.social neighbor was out for our dumpster day today and had things to say about the MTA: 150
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 20/03/2025They can make up for it by just bvilding the concept from like a decade ago, lets say by 2028? 140
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 09/03/2025There are probably dozens of daily riders that would prefer this transfer but mapping often deranks it because of the missing Charles Center stop. Map apps also don't see the direct metro transfer and downrank using it from the purple. 000
Melanie Scheirer @mela.nie.rs · 09/03/2025@mdotmtaholly.bsky.social I've lived on the Purple for years and ever since the route got truncated in fall of... 22... the gis data for the last 3 eastbound stops at Charles Calvert and Gay + Fayette has been missing. @yukiclarke.com has tried to get this fixed on my behalf for years. How fix? 310
