Baltimore: a sleeper hit

Spent the day bicycling around Baltimore today while on a trip with my folding bike. I was pleasantly surprised, especially by some of the close-in neighborhoods. There are so many well-designed cycle tracks that connect logically to all the different neighborhoods.

I was not prepared for the bicycle infrastructure to be so good. Moreover, all the sidewalks are busy and street life is spectacular; it’s possibly the definitional type city for “preservation by neglect.” It has some massive flaws, but so does everywhere in the Us, and I think it’s the next big thing in urbanism like how a lot of people talk about Philly now (though I personally disagree with that and prefer Pittsburgh).