The Baltimore County Office of the Inspector General has issued an investigative report on over $125,000 of wasted spending from the County’s Traffic Calming Unit.
According to OIG, the Traffic Calming Unit, which administers the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, wasted over $125,000 of funds on several projects, including raised crosswalks at wrong locations and traffic calming measures on roads that did not qualify for them.
The report found that one raised crosswalk that was supposed to be installed in front of an elementary school was placed in the wrong location and had to be redone. The same was done on a road owned by the state of Maryland, and that crosswalk needed to be removed.
The full OIG report can be found here.
There were also several traffic calming measures inst

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