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Transportation

    A yellow and white road sign telling drivers to yield to pedestrians.
    At some downtown Baltimore intersections, looking both ways isn’t always enough
    Navigating Baltimore’s roads can get hairy, and even the rules at some downtown intersections can put pedestrians in harm’s way.
    A close up photo of a bicycle symbol in a red-painted lane of a two lane roadway. Cars are parked along the road in the distance.
    Letters: West Baltimore residents are right. Parts of proposed bike trail are dangerous.
    The proposed bike trail from Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park to Druid Hill Park would be dangerous, a reader says, but an alternate route would make sense.
    A woman holding a microphone and a white piece of paper stands on a deck around a group of people and gives a speech.
    Transportation 101: Inside the free class that teaches future advocates
    A class offered by the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance aims to give everyday Baltimoreans the tools to advocate for change on transportation issues.
    A profile image of two men and one woman sitting in a line looking to the left side of the frame.
    A budget crunch and tough decisions: 5 takeaways from state’s draft 6-year transportation plan
    The Maryland Department of Transportation is $1.3 billion short and won’t cut some marquee projects. That means unfortunate cuts elsewhere.
    Workers cut up the remanants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to prepare them to be recycled on April 12, 2024 a few weeks after the collapse. . The pieces are gathered from the water and taken to the port of Tradepoint Atlantic, which sits directly adjacent to where the bridge once stood.
    Steel, concrete and mud from the Key Bridge salvage operation gets recycled and repurposed
    About 50,000 tons of material and debris were removed from the Key Bridge collapse site. All of it was repurposed and put to good use.

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    A bus outside Charles Center Station drives along its path on 8/11/22.
    Hop on, transit nerds, the MTA is making holiday sweaters
    The MTA is hopping on the hottest transit agency trend — merch.
    Coal piles at the CSX terminal in Curtis Bay can be seen around the neighborhood, and residents often complain of a fine layer of coal dust coating their homes.
    State permit for CSX in South Baltimore would have a catch — barriers to block coal dust
    The Maryland State Department of the Environment published a draft permit Thursday morning that would allow CSX Transportation to continue operating its coal terminal in South Baltimore.
    The Domino Sugar Factory, with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the background, is seen on Thursday, March 14, 2024.
    MDTA awards contract for Key Bridge replacement
    Transportation officials have estimated finishing construction and opening the bridge to traffic in the Fall of 2028.
    Wreckage from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge is seen in front of the Baltimore skyline from a boat in the Patapsco River on April 25, 2024.
    Propane distribution company sues Dali owners over alleged losses from Key Bridge collapse
    A Baltimore propane distribution company is suing the owners of the cargo ship Dali for economic losses suffered from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
    A close up photo of a bicycle symbol in a red-painted lane of a two lane roadway. Cars are parked along the road in the distance.
    The city wants to build a trail to link 2 West Baltimore parks. No one seems happy with the plan.
    A proposal to link The Greenway Trails Network between Druid Hill and Leakin parks has left some trail advocates scratching their heads.

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    Residents and neighborhoods in Howard County can go online to report dangerously busy county roads and request traffic calming measures that prevent speeding. Howard County Executive Calvin Ball released a new policy this week that overhauls the way the jurisdiction collects such applications — and the way officials decide which county-owned and maintained roads will eventually get speed humps, roundabouts or rumble strips.
    Howard County just made it easier to report the roads drivers take too fast
    Howard County Executive Calvin Ball’s new traffic calming policy overhauls the jurisdiction’s approach to reducing driver speeds on county-owned and maintained roads.
    The Maryland Transit Administration is making two new improvements that should help riders track buses and trains more reliably.
    Tracking your MTA bus should get easier with these new upgrades
    The Maryland Transit Administration is making two new improvements that should help riders track buses and trains more reliably.
    A rectangular grey box that houses an automated traffic camera stands on a city sidewalk as a blurred black SUV drives by.
    New speed cameras going up near schools in Northeast Baltimore
    The city of Baltimore announced this week that it was installing new school-zone speed cameras at four locations, but didn’t say when they would go live.
    Ocean City firefighters, EMS clinicians and the Ocean City Police Department were on the scene of a serious motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian and tram near Dorchester Street and the Boardwalk. A portion of the Boardwalk was closed on Aug. 20, 2024 during the investigation. (Ocean City Fire Department)
    Ocean City suspends boardwalk tram after 2-year-old fatally struck
    Police said the 2-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, was struck by a tram on the boardwalk Tuesday a little after 8 p.m.
    White paint in the shape of two bicycles indicate where a two-way bike path is separated from the rest of the roadway.
    Can a bike lane on a ‘chaotic’ Howard County road make it safer?
    Howard County officials pushed for a new "quick build" Complete Streets project along a bustling part of Washington Boulevard that debuted this week. They are hoping it will make a crash-prone corridor safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

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    Howard County Public School System officials say they've been hard at work understanding what happened in the bus fiasco last August and how to stop it from happening again.
    Howard County school buses caused chaos last year. Here’s what to expect this year.
    Howard County Public School System officials say they've been hard at work understanding what happened last August and how to stop it from happening again.
    A yellow sign, warning cars about pedestrians, is shown in the middle of a roadway intersection. Cars and trees line the road and a couple of large skyscrapers are in the background.
    The neighborhood just wanted a crosswalk. They found out Baltimore doesn’t make it easy.
    It wasn’t supposed to be this complicated but it was. It would take about a year and a half to get a handful of plastic bollards installed, bolt a pedestrian sign into the road and some paint at an intersection, according to the people involved.
    The north-south light rail is mired in problems from botched rehabilitation work that has taken more than a decade to complete.
    As Ravens and Orioles games collide Saturday, MTA light rail struggles continue
    In a back and forth on X on Thursday, Maryland Transit Administrator Holly Arnold told Baltimore sports fans frustrated with lagging game-day light rail service that only about 20 trains were available to run on any given day.
    The Dali, a massive container ship from Singapore, sits in the wreckage and collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Baltimore port on April 1, 2024.
    Dali owner’s possible liability for Key Bridge collapse would soar under House bill
    A newly introduced House bill would increase the Dali's obligation in the Key Bridge collapse nearly ten-fold.
    A digital rendering of a large green field with buildings on three sides.
    County developer modifies previous plan to add new apartments on contentious Lutherville land
    The new proposal for transit-oriented development next to the Lutherville light rail stop calls for even more apartments than before.