Study: Baltimore Roads Among Country's Worst

POSTED: 10:26 am EDT October 3, 2006

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A new study ranks Baltimore among the nation's
urban areas with the bumpiest roads.

The transportation research group "TRIP" says 43 percent of the area's
major roads are in poor condition -- ranking the Baltimore region 12th
worst in the nation.

The report looked at the smoothness of major roads in metropolitan
areas of at least 500,000 people.

San Jose, Calif., is rated as the area with the roughest roads at 66
percent in poor condition. The best roads were found in Atlanta.

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Most Dangerous Top 10 Cities with a population of more than 500,000:

1 - Detroit, MI

2 - Baltimore, MD

3 - Memphis, TN

4 - Washington, DC

5 - Philadelphia, PA

6 - Dallas, TX

7 - Nashville, TN

8 - Charlotte, NC

9 - Columbus, OH

10 - Houston, TX

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O'Malley and city crime: Killings, drug trade
drop less than hoped

b Gus G. Sentementes and Doug Donovan, Baltimore
Sun reporters

October 21, 2006

As a Baltimore city councilman in the 1990s,
Martin O'Malley railed against the Police
Department's failures to effectively combat a
brazen drug trade that was fueling more than 300
homicides annually.

When he ran for mayor in 1999, O'Malley promised
to make crime-fighting his top priority. His
victory gave him the mandate to launch a
controversial, zero-tolerance approach to drug
corners, to revamp the Police Department's inner
workings and to boldly pledge that murders would
be reduced to 175 a year.