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Woman injured after being trapped under Red Line train in Hollywood
L.A. NOWA 40-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries Friday morning after she became trapped underneath the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s westbound Red Line train at the Hollywood and Western station.... -
Orange Line extension opens with free rides
L.A. NOWThe Orange Line extension, a four-mile addition to the San Fernando Valley busway, officially opened Saturday with free rides for passengers from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.... -
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: Barack Obama, Politics, Labor Markets, Science, Career and Workplace
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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: Ken Ulman, Politics, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Amtrak
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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 (Frederick, Maryland), Frederick County (Maryland), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), Prince George's County
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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 Rail, Science and Technology, Architecture, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Arts and Culture
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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: Transportation, Prince George's County, Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Travel
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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, Politics, Business Enterprises, Purple Line (Maryland), Government
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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: Barack Obama, Purple Line (Maryland), Consumer Confidence, Baltimore County, Public Transportation
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Divided business community misses a chance on gas taxes
When it comes to higher gas taxes, most Maryland businesses agree on one thing: They want a guarantee that the money designated for highway revenues will go to roads and bridges. But when the rubber met the road in the Maryland House of Delegates, some...
Tags: Politics, Transportation, Petroleum Industry, Government, Business
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We all benefit from transit, and we should all pay for it
Opponents of the effort to raise Maryland’s gas tax have thrown around a lot of ridiculous claims in recent weeks, from the argument that the money isn’t really needed (if anything, the projected $600 million-a-year return is not enough to...
Tags: Transportation, Traffic, Personal Income, Public Transportation, Travel
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The sequester solution hiding in plain sight
The budget fights in Washington, D.C., and Annapolis are looking predictably ugly this year and are shaping up along familiar lines: Do we raise taxes? Do we sink deeper in debt? Which programs do we cut — and how deep? How can we fund public...Tags: Donna F. Edwards, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress, Christopher Van Hollen Jr.
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