public transportation
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The State Highway Administration has been awarded a $200,000 federal planning grant for the installation of a state-of-the-art real-time travel information system on three congested traffic arteries between Baltimore and Washington, the Federal Highway Administration said Tuesday. - Amtrak Train 151, which stops in Perryville, Aberdeen and Edgewood is expected to operate 25-30 minutes late, Maryland Transit Administration officials said Tuesday morning.
- The Maryland Transit Administration failed to properly verify the accuracy of hundreds of millions of dollars in contractor-submitted architechtural and engineering labor costs for the Red and Purple lines, according to a state audit released Monday.
- A train collided with a vehicle in Rosedale Monday morning, Baltimore County fire officials said, less than two miles from the site of a significant derailment and explosion in 2013 along the same rail line.
- Hog Neck Road north, past Mountain Road in Anne Arundel County, is blocked because of emergency roadwork, state highway officials said.
- State lawmakers concerned about increasingly common rail shipments of crude oil through Maryland have called for a full risk assessment of such transports, and on railroads to be more transparent about their local operations.
- A two-vehicle collision on MD 100 West in Hanover prior to Arundel Mills Boulevard has closed the westbound left traffic lane and westbound left shoulder at 8:50 a.m. on Thursday, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- The Maryland Transit Administration's online, real-time bus-tracking system, now available on the MTA website via desktop computer and mobile phone, is a technological blessing. But when real-time tracking doesn't work — about half the time, in my experience — then you're left frustrated, in the cold
- Maryland Transit Authority police have found a man's body outside a bus stop at the Owings Mills Metro station in Baltimore County.
- Some people weren't sure what to make of it; others were simply curious about the two young women standing with crosses on their foreheads in front of a big sign labeled "Ashes to Go" on the train platform of the Edgewood MARC station Wednesday morning.
- Prince George's County officials said the county will activate a 'full deployment" of county crews and contract workers around 3 p.m. Monday in preparation of the winter storm expected to hit the area today.
- People who decide to venture out in the Baltimore-Washington region can expect headaches if they want to use public transportation.
- There were no unscheduled road closures on Baltimore-area highways at 7:30 a.m., state transportation officials said.
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- A utility problem on U.S. 1 North in Perry Hall at Forge Road has closed the northbound right traffic lane and northbound right shoulder at 7:31 a.m. on Friday, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- Maryland's top transportation official on Thursday ordered immediate inspections of 27 aging, state-owned bridges after a chunk of concrete fell on a Prince George's County woman's car from the bottom of the Interstate 495 overpass in Morningside.
- All lanes are open on MD 77 in Carroll County with the clearing of a single-vehicle crash on early Thursday morning, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- An incident on Interstate 95 North past the Fort McHenry Tunnel toll plaza has closed the northbound right shoulder at 8:34 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- A Maryland Transit Administration employee steered a $200,000 contract to a company owned by the employee's spouse before being fired in 2012, a state audit found. The transaction was among $6.3 million in contracts overseen by the manager called into question by the audit.
- The Maryland Transit Administration said it will launch two bus lines, including one with a stop at the upcoming Amazon Distribution Center on Broening Highway, to transport commuters to new job opportunities in Baltimore City, officials said on Tuesday.
- There is a disabled vehicle blocking both southbound lanes before the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, according to state transportation officials.
- The Maryland Transit Administration launches today a much-anticipated bus tracking system for local routes in Baltimore and its surrounding suburbs, putting real-time bus arrival information at users' fingertips for the first time.
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- Friday traffic: Two lanes reopened at main break site
- A ruptured 16-inch water main beneath Gay Street downtown has "undermined the street surface," forcing its closure, according to the Baltimore Department of Public Works.
- Maryland's new transportation chief promised senators Wednesday that he will keep an open mind as he considers whether the state should go ahead with two huge light rail projects, including Baltimore's Red Line.
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- The South Carroll Lioness-Lions Club is offering a bus trip to the Philadelphia Flower show on March 2
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- Baltimore needs better public transit than the proposed Red Line offers
- A collision on the outer loop of Interstate 695 in Middle River at MD 702 has closed lane closures in both directions at 8:26 a.m. on Friday, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- Voters liked Governor Hogan's promises for cutting state spending and taxes during the campaign, but they may not all prove so attractive when their implications become real
- All northbound traffic on Interstate 895 in Baltimore City has been closed due to a two-vehicle collision at the Harbor Tunnel at 8:49 a.m. on Thursday, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Maryland Transit Administration on behalf of thousands of riders with disabilities, alleging the agency's federally-mandated paratransit service is woefully unreliable and inaccessible.
- The Baltimore City Office of Emergency Management has reported a collision with injuries on westbound North Avenue at McCulloh Street that sent two dozen people to the hospital at 7:10 on Wednesday morning.
- The Red Line has had the support of five transportation secretaries and both republican and democratic administrations. The Red Line is a game changer for Baltimore, and a project we cannot afford to walk away from when we are standing at the finish line.
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- Install European-style trolley cars, not another light rail line in Charm City
- A fatal crash in Northern Harford County and a 49-car wreck near the Baltimore-Howard county line followed a slippery Sunday morning that began with an unexpected band of freezing rain.
- Who is moving to Baltimore? Lots of potential Red Line passengers
- New transportation secretary knows transit and highways and will promote practical choices
