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.
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.
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.
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 Maryland Transit Administration and Virginia Railway Express will now honor each other’s commuter train tickets as part of a new agreement to help bolster ridership and connectivity.
The Department of Public Works is investigating how water got into the gas lines, prompting the company to shut off service in the area for multiple days.
The agencies and developers involved in transforming Baltimore’s Penn Station disagree on where to move the passenger drop-off area to make way for a pedestrian plaza.
About 40 people who gathered at a public library in Dundalk Thursday evening for a public hearing on a newly unveiled plan to demolish the remainder of the bridge — the first step of a multiyear plan to get drivers traversing the bridge once again.
Police say a teenage driver struck a 31-year-old man on a scooter at the intersection of North Conkling Street and Pulaski Highway and left the scene. The man died of injuries suffered in the crash, and the 16-year-old driver was later arrested and charged in the incident.
The Federal Highway Administration has determined that Maryland won’t have to complete a lengthy environmental impact study, which could have slowed the yearslong rebuild even more.
With lost revenue because of the bridge collapse and uncertainty over whether Congress will pay the whole amount to rebuild it, the toll increase will take place a year earlier than planned, a spokesman said.
Maryland officials have revived the Red Line transit project to connect East and West Baltimore. Now it falls to MTA Administrator Holly Arnold, a transit “true believer,” to help make it a reality.
Authorities say Anthony Jacob Fritz, 38, faces two charges after he allegedly threatened to blow up an MVA building where he worked in Hagerstown. The state fire marshal's office says it found 26 guns and dozens of boxes of ammo during a search of his home.