Editing Henry Barnes (traffic engineer) (section)

===Baltimore===
Barnes came to Baltimore in 1953 for a one-month job as consultant traffic engineer, but Mayor [[Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.]] (father of [[Nancy Pelosi]]) was so impressed he hired Barnes as traffic commissioner. At Baltimore, Barnes installed a traffic-control computer that was, in 1957, the largest of its kind in the world. He had the pedestal honoring Johns Hopkins moved to Charles and 33rd Street; previously it had been responsible for a number of fatalities.<ref>{{cite web|first=Tom |last=Chalkley |title=Road Warrior |date=May 30, 2001 |url=http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=2431 |work=Baltimore City Paper |access-date=October 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060221041235/http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=2431 |archive-date=February 21, 2006 }}</ref> Barnes asked the mayor for a raise from $18,000 to 20,000 and took the traffic commissioner position at New York City when the request was turned down.