The woes of parking and Baltimore city traffic are symptoms of a central dysfunction that’s not uncommon in many cities (“ Parking woes rise in Baltimore even as enforcement increases: ‘Parking in this city is a problem ,'” Dec. 1). This is the overreaching of newer policies that replaced efforts to ensure safe, orderly, equitable passage on city streets with an overreaching idea that streets need to be everything to everyone — in commerce and recreation — and in a word: complete.

Today’s map hints at this as the higher numbers of complaints appear to be from areas that have had a greater number of “initiatives” under these concepts. Similarly, the tragic death of traffic investigator Gregory Turnipseed should also remind us that it’s not traffic that needs calming, it’s drivers (“ Bal

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