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Thanksgiving traffic down slightly; Sandy may be to blame
If you stayed put this Thanksgiving, you weren't home alone. Despite experts projecting a slight increase in travel, it appears Maryland's busiest highways were a little less crowded. Superstorm Sandy may have had a role in spoiling holiday plans....
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Fort McHenry, Holidays, Thanksgiving
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J. Edward Naylor Sr., MTA driver
J. Edward Naylor Sr., a retired Maryland Transit Administration employee who once had top seniority among his peers as a streetcar and bus operator, died of respiratory failure Nov. 29 at the Village of Harbor Point Assisted Living in Salisbury. The...Tags: Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Trips and Vacations, Roland Park, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Memorial Stadium
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Baltimore replacing entire speed camera system
Baltimore officials said Monday they are scrapping all 83 of the city's automated speed cameras and "methodically" replacing them with newer models, after a Baltimore Sun investigation found errors with the system. The overhaul, estimated to cost...
Tags: Anthony W. Batts, General Contracting, Photography Supplies and Services, Local Government, Government
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Despite isolated problems, Baltimore's speed cameras save lives
Speed kills. Between 2001 and 2010, excessive speeding caused one-third of all traffic fatalities in Maryland. Maryland suffered 154 speed-related traffic fatalities in 2010. In comparison, the Maryland State Fire Marshall announced 71 fire fatalities...Tags: Fires, Justice System, Safety of Citizens, Government, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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City official worried in July speed camera problems could 'get out of hands'
City transportation officials were so worried four months ago about inaccurate speeding tickets coming from an automated camera on Cold Spring Lane that a supervisor ordered the problem fixed before it could "get out of hands," documents obtained by The...
Tags: Parkville, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Technology, Xerox Corporation
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City official says speed-camera radar 'not 100% accurate'
City officials said Friday that they no longer have complete confidence in the accuracy of their speed cameras' radar systems and have instituted a new "reasonableness" test on two cameras known to have issued erroneous tickets. "We now know we can't...
Tags: Government, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Public Officials, Frank Murphy, Xerox Corporation
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City councilman calls for speed camera hearing
The vice chairman of the City Council's public safety committee called Sunday for a hearing on Baltimore's vast and lucrative speed camera program after an investigation by The Baltimore Sun found that the $40 citations issued to motorists can be...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Human Mishaps, Justice System, Photography Supplies and Services, Judges
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Rawlings-Blake wants zero speed camera errors
As criticism of Baltimore's speed camera system mounted for a second day Monday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she would not tolerate a single erroneous ticket issued by the cameras under her administration. "We need to make sure we're...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Fines, Verna L. Jones, Washington, DC, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Holiday traffic slows I-95
Motorists crawled along the I-95 corridor Saturday as a smattering of accidents slowed already sluggish holiday traffic, authorities said. Troopers from Prince George's County to Cecil County reported roadways more crowded than normal as the end-of-...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, John F. Kennedy, Cecil County, Howard County, Prince George's County
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AAA wants sale of new ethanol-laced gasoline suspended until consumers get more information
The nation’s leading travel organization Friday urged the Obama administration to block the sale of E15, a new ethanol-laced gasoline, that could damage as many as 228 million vehicles that are not designed to run on it.
After years of controversy,...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Chrysler, Ethanol, Hyundai, Biofuels
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Marylanders poised to begin annual Thanksgiving travel
Mara Kaminowitz knows the roads. That's why the professional mapmaker and her husband will be taking the train to New York City to celebrate Thanksgiving with family. "That's our strategy for how to deal with holiday traffic — avoid I-95 at all...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Road Transportation, Cecil County, Transportation, Railway Transportation
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Use extra revenue on transit
Letter writer Mahlon G. Anderson of AAA Mid-Atlantic ("Md. should devote its surplus to transportation," Sept. 6) gives short shrift to an essential need here in Maryland — improved public transportation. He focuses on road construction and...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Finance, Automotive Equipment, Public Transportation
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