Baltimore Red Line

Red Line forum attracts businesses hungry for opportunity

2013-06-10 16:45:33

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...

Craig plans statewide blitz, gives radio preview

2013-05-31 07:07:00

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...

Smith appointment subtracts one from ticket speculation

2013-05-29 15:38:00

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...

Put people ahead of cars

2013-06-04 09:37:00

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...

MARC: Rolling in the right direction

2013-05-26 05:00:00

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...

Baltimore's investments in job creation

2013-05-17 03:00:00

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...

MARC to add weekend service to Washington

2013-05-16 16:55:00

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...

Roads, bridges, transit projects announced with gas tax hike

2013-05-16 09:54:00

The 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...

Cool potential for former icehouse

2013-04-19 17:01:13

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...

Maryland presses for federal support in building two light-rail systems

2013-04-15 16:39:17

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...

O'Malley to sign public-private partnership bill tomorrow

2013-04-08 14:02:00

Lt. 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...

Gas tax will hurt Md.'s economy

2013-04-03 12:45:00

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...

Maryland?s Transportation Trust Fund is rapidly approaching the point at which it will no longer be able to afford anything more than system maintenance and preservation.

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