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Red Line forum attracts businesses hungry for opportunity
For a construction industry starved for work during recent lean years, the prospect of getting a slice of the $2.6 billion Red Line light rail project was like a dinner bell. Nearly 400 people, from contractors and investment bankers to engineering firms...
Tags: Company Privatization, Heavy Engineering, Public Transportation, Purple Line (Maryland), Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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Put people ahead of cars
Baltimore City is at a transportation crossroads. We can move in the direction of a safer, healthier, more sustainable and economical city — the direction in which dozens of cities across America are moving — or fall back on prioritizing...
Tags: Automotive Equipment, Passenger Cars, Charm City Circulator, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Cycling
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Craig plans statewide blitz, gives radio preview
Harford County Executive David R. Craig's all-but-official campaign for the 2014 Republican nomination for governor plans an ambitious rollout tour that will take him to every region of the state next week after his announcement Monday. Craig's campaign...
Tags: Punishment, Regional Authority, Government, Martin O'Malley, Radio
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Smith appointment subtracts one from ticket speculation
Wednesday's appointment of former Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr. as Maryland's secretary of transportation removes one prominent name from the guessing game over who the leading Democratic contenders for governor will choose as their...
Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Purple Line (Maryland), Executive Branch, Martin O'Malley
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MARC: Rolling in the right direction
The Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act of 2013 will provide crucially needed funding for improving, expanding and building transportation projects throughout Maryland. Projects critical to continued economic growth throughout Central Maryland...
Tags: Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service, Baltimore County, Employment Opportunities, Purple Line (Maryland), Employment
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Baltimore's investments in job creation
A strong and sustainable 21st century economy can only be built from the bottom up. And today, as President Barack Obama visits Baltimore, it is this fact that will drive us to join with him to renew a call for Congress to focus on common-sense...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Barack Obama, Martin O'Malley, Employment, Science
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MARC to add weekend service to Washington
Maryland's MARC commuter trains, which have always operated Monday through Friday, will begin offering weekend service between Baltimore and Washington on the Penn Line in coming months. The expansion — put on hold in 2008 when the recession hit...
Tags: Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service, Baltimore County, Ken Ulman, Purple Line (Maryland), Harford County
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Roads, bridges, transit projects announced with gas tax hike
The Baltimore SunThe gas tax increase Gov. Martin O'Malley signed into law Thursday will pay for weekend MARC service between Baltimore and D.C., roads and bridges throughout the state and construction on the Red and Purple lines to begin as soon as 2015. The first...Tags: Frederick County (Maryland), Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service, Baltimore County, Purple Line (Maryland), Martin O'Malley
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Cool potential for former icehouse
As many times as I have stood on the MARC station platform in West Baltimore, I never considered there was a fantastic, Jules Verne-like interior just across Franklin Street. I assumed the fire-damaged brick building alongside the rail tracks was just...
Tags: Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service, Architecture, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Under Armour Inc., Highway Transportation
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Maryland presses for federal support in building two light-rail systems
Backed by an affirming legislative session and soon to be flush with transportation money, state officials went to Washington on Monday to assure the administration that Maryland has both the means and the will to build two light rail systems. "Timing is...
Tags: Purple Line (Maryland), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Public Transportation, Hospitals and Clinics, Woodlawn (Baltimore, Maryland)
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O'Malley to sign public-private partnership bill tomorrow
The Baltimore SunLt. Gov. Anthony Brown said a bill that would allow private companies to help build public works projects will get the governor's signature tomorrow. Lawmakers approved the bill laying out rules for public-private partnerships on Monday afternoon, the...Tags: Company Privatization, Government, Purple Line (Maryland), Executive Branch, Business Enterprises
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Gas tax will hurt Md.'s economy
What a sad time for Marylanders. They are going to be subjected to a regressive gas tax that will have an automatic tax accelerator tied to the Consumer Price Index ("Md. Senate approves increase in gas tax," March 30). It is unfair to the gas station...
Tags: Baltimore County, Public Transportation, Purple Line (Maryland), Barack Obama, Martin O'Malley
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