and Charles St., Baltimore

Photos head from Johns Hopkins University south and then west to I-83.


University Parkway EB at Charles St. The western lane of the middle of Charles St. (which is four lanes wide) is I believe reversable for peak-hour transit, and may sit unused the rest of the day. All traffic uses the parking lane, meaning that out of a six-lane roadway, there are four NB lanes and one SB lane total.


Starting on 33rd St. WB at Charles St. and then turning SB. There is no point to having the arrows pointing to either side of the divider, because as you saw above and see again here, all the SB traffic is on the right side. Any transit vehicles would be forced right anyway, so there may as well just be one straight arrow in the second photo. Both lanes merge and then end at W. 29th St. The confusion here is that I-83 gets a right arrow and the other routes get a straight arrow, but when you get to the Maryland Ave. signal the overheads point left and straight. So the sign in the third photo should be altered to match all of the other signage.


WB as the Charles St. "ramp" comes into W. 29th St. at Maryland Ave. Why would traffic not want to head 2 minutes west in order to use I-83 for 2 miles, not get confused in the maze of downtown streets, and have easy signage from the end of I-83 to the beginning of I-395?


If you ignored the bear-right arrow for I-83, and stay on W. 29th St., you get this mini-reassurance shield.


Wow old button copy.


Taken from the joined onramp to I-83 NB from W. 29th St./Druid Park Lake Drive (the eastbound direction becomes W. 28th St.), this is where W. 29th St. overpasses a railroad and the original Falls Road, which predated the Jones Falls Expressway and becomes MD 25 to the north.


Druid Park Lake Dr. EB, more Wow old button copy and then a similarly old but blurrier ALL TRUCKS sign for the left exit to I-83 NB. The one failing of this curvy, convoluted interchange is no direct EB-SB ramp, despite that being possibly the easiest movement of the eight. (Discounting the four left-turn movements, two of the right turns are constrained by a deep valley on the east side of I-83, and the third is constrained by Druid Hill Park - and all of those were somehow constructed!)

Onto I-83
To US 40
To MD 295, the B-W Pkwy.
To I-95
Into Baltimore
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