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Has anyone tried to navigate Federal Hill and South Baltimore by car within the last three months?  The ongoing utility work in that area has made navigating around the main and side streets a nightmare.

Although I live nearby these neighborhoods, I do a fair amount of driving over there–running to the gym, the grocery store, or meeting folks out for dinner.  It all started when Ostend Street had a block closed between Hanover and Charles Streets, and then it was compounded with Marshall Street being closed for about 2-3 blocks.  These closures started back in February.

Yesterday, when I headed to the gym last night, I was met with a closure of Charles Street between West Street and Cross Street.  On my way home from the gym, I then hit the closure of Ostend Street between Marshall and Charles Streets.  It is getting to be a maddening array of detours in what is a pretty easy place to get around.

The neighborhoods apparently are getting some major work done to the water mains and lines, but the haphazard way in which one street is closed for a week or two, then re-opened unexpectedly has truly become a nuisance.  I was swearing like a sailor last night on my way home from the gym.

Of course, knowing what roads are closed for utility work for an extended period of time would be a wonderful and surprisingly useful service that nitwit Dresser could provide.  Instead, that old cantankerous boob continues blathering on about speeding as opposed to paying attention to some of the real traffic concerns.  Ba