Transportation

The work will eventually open the median shoulders to traffic during rush hour, helping to unclog congested areas.

One alignment includes construction of a new downtown tunnel, while the other two routes are surface level.

As the Greater Baltimore Committee focuses on boosting this region’s economic competitiveness, it must also support programs to end the economic apartheid that now plagues the city’s disadvantaged Black neighborhoods, says Lawrence Brown, an author and research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University.

The 78 new railcars will replace Metro’s original fleet of 100 railcars that are reaching the end of their lifespans.

The state is surveying residents about their driving behaviors around work zones and the best way to reduce work zone crashes in the wake of a collision on I-695 last spring that left six workers dead.