This kind of thing happens all the time. I regularly drive up and down Eastern Avenue and see drivers of the #10 and #7 doing it all the time. Not to mention never and I mean never pulling into the bus stop all the way. They block traffic constantly, and when they are done, god forbid you are along side when they swing out into traffic.

If a city bus or city vehicle on city business triggers a red light camera fine or a speed camera fine, who pays?

You act as if this is an isolated incident! MTA buses run lights all the time just like everyone else in Baltimore. This is nothing new. Apparently the police don't care, the citizens don't care, and the MTA doesn't care either.

Please clarify. Was the reporter also running the light?

By the way, since moving to Baltimore in 2004, I have seen MTA buses running red lights more than a few times -- once crossing Pratt during evening rush and once at Eastern and Luzerne. I have learned to be cautious....

I'd like to know why the drivers who have to make that (stupid) turn from Wolfe St onto McElderry St. insist on ignoring the pedestrian's right of way and just speed on through the turn like there is no one there. Sometimes they beep to let people know they are coming. But if I were a pedestrian, crossing with the light, it wouldn't occur to me that they were honking at me.

MTA really needs to find another route fo rthat bus.

Jeff:

The reporter, a true stick in the mud, stopped for the light and watched the bus chug on ahead. The bus did stop at the next light and the reporter caught up, so the operator gained no time by running the previous light.

I walk that route everyday. I think the MTA buses (and most drivers) forget that McElderry is a two-way street.

School buses in the counties do the same. They also ignore stop signs.

And this is why as much as I think cyclists should be able to roll through red lights and stop signs, in this city, we are barely ready for that. You never know when someone is coming through an intersection. The lights mean nothing here.

I've even seen the Light Rail trains run red lights at the Cultural Center.