Daniel Zawodny covers transportation for the The Baltimore Banner as a corps member with Report For America. He is a Baltimore area native and graduated with his master's degree in journalism from American University in 2021. He is bilingual in English and Spanish and previously covered immigration issues.
Roughly 100 students and advocates gathered just steps from the State House Tuesday afternoon with a simple message displayed on signs and reverberating through the air — Baltimore needs better transit, and now.
The backlog of residents asking the city and its transportation department to do something to curtail dangerous speeding and aggressive driving has grown — by a lot — since right before the pandemic, when such behaviors starting getting worse across the country.
A pattern that played out nationally also held in Maryland. Trump performed better in almost all of its 23 counties and Baltimore than he did four years earlier.
The Baltimore City Department of Transportation will receive an $85.5 million federal grant to further its efforts to transform a blighted section of U.S. 40 in West Baltimore dubbed the “Highway to Nowhere.”
In 2025, the first of 78 new railcars will go into service as the Maryland Transit Administration begins replacing the original fleet. It’s a nearly $557 million investment, mostly funded by the federal government.
Gov. Wes Moore and Comptroller Brooke Lierman let out some frustration at today’s Board of Public Works meeting with the over budget and overdue transit project in the D.C. suburbs.
Dec 18, 2024
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