July 5, 2008
MARC station plans speed up
After intensely lobbying state transportation officials, a Harford County councilman has helped put the $4.2 million MARC train station in Edgewood back on track.
Councilman Dion F. Guthrie said yesterday he received a letter from state Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari saying construction will begin next year on the train station as originally scheduled. Earlier this year, planners had considered delaying the project until 2011.
"I think I finally convinced them of the immediate need for this station," Guthrie said.
Guthrie, whose district includes Edgewood, has repeatedly stressed the critical need for a modernized station, as the first wave of workers with the nationwide military realignment known as BRAC begins arriving at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Mary Gail Hare
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