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Seat belt enforcement in Towson nets 55 citations
Baltimore County Police from the Towson Precinct issued more than 50 seat belt citations in four hours during a recent evening patrol in downtown Towson. According to the precinct, its Traffic Team unit conducted a "Night Time Seatbelt Enforcement...Tags: Towson, Baltimore County, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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State Police run truck-safety dragnet at FedEx Field
— Just after dawn Tuesday, law enforcement officers began yanking hundreds of trucks off the Capital Beltway and funneling them to an inspection lot a long touchdown pass from FedEx Field.
The truck-safety dragnet pulled over 420 rigs and...Tags: FedEx Field, Transportation Accidents, Companies and Corporations, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Calvert County
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State looks at all-electronic toll collection
Maryland may eventually do away with tollbooths on the state's highways, bridges and tunnels and switch to electronic toll collection.
A preliminary report by the Maryland Transportation Authority concluded that converting its seven toll plazas is...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Sweetwater, Cecil County, Fort McHenry, Inner Harbor
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Doctors' group pushes for new child safety seat standards in Maryland
A Maryland doctors' group is pushing legislation to bolster the state's child safety seat laws, a move designed to better protect toddlers from head, neck and spinal injuries during accidents.
The Maryland State Medical Society, also known as MedChi,...Tags: Laws, Parenting, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Standards, Baltimore County
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For second year in a row, BWI sets passenger record
For the second year in a row, passenger traffic set records at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, with 22.39 million ticket holders passing through the gates in 2011. The 2.1 percent increase came as airport officials...Tags: Air Transportation, Concourse, Transportation, Boeing Co., Tourism and Leisure Industry
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Feds investigating BWI flights to Cuba
It was undoubtedly exciting news: Baltimore would become one of the few spots in the U.S. offering flights to Cuba, a Communist nation largely off-limits to American travelers.
But one critical item had been overlooked: the paperwork.
The Florida travel...Tags: Transportation, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Companies and Corporations, Tampa, International Travel
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Md. trucking firm called 'imminent hazard,' ordered off roads
A Hanover-based trucking company with a long history of safety violations — including a fatal crash in August — has been ordered off the road after federal regulators found it to be an "imminent hazard" to the public.
The Federal Motor...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Companies and Corporations, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Music, Concerts
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New trucking company shut in Arundel
Federal regulatory officials moved quickly to shut down an Anne Arundel County trucking company that opened at the same address as a freight hauler closed this month by authorities who cited a number of safety violations and seven crashes in the past...Tags: Lawyers, Anne Arundel County, Prosecution, Bankruptcy, Companies and Corporations
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Contractors grounded by FAA shutdown
When Kathleen Thompson learned this week that her Forest Glen engineering firm would not receive payment from its biggest client, the Federal Aviation Administration, the decision she had been dreading suddenly became inevitable: She told employees that...Tags: Steny H. Hoyer, Employees, Labor Day, House Building, Federal Aviation Administration
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Celebrated nuclear ship rests in Baltimore
Tucked behind a ruined grain elevator at a pier along an industrial stretch of Baltimore's waterfront lies a still-gleaming white vessel that was once one of the nation's proudest maritime achievements — the only nuclear cargo and passenger ship...Tags: Shipbuilding, Cruises, Hurricane Damage, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Tubman Underground Railroad center on Shore gets funding
Harriet Tubman has long inspired a deep sense of pride among Marylanders, especially in the rural communities of the Eastern Shore, where the former slave was born and led dozens to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
While her story is taught to...Tags: Railway Transportation, Natural Resources, Slavery, Gardens and Parks, Benjamin L. Cardin
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Bigger trucks spell big trouble on Maryland's roads
In meetings with members of Congress and their staffs this month, I was very clear about my reason for being there: AAA Mid-Atlantic is strongly opposed, on behalf of its members and all motorists, to any increase in the size and weight of tractor-trailer...Tags: Road Transportation, Transportation, Companies and Corporations, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Minor League Baseball
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