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Orioles fans walk off the light rail at Camden Station ahead of the game on opening day, March 28, 2024.
Expect a packed light rail for a sold-out Orioles weekend. Here are other transit options.
Fans have reported overcrowded train cars after Orioles games recently. Here are a couple ways around the crowds.
Traffic on Interstate 83 on the Jones Falls Expressway.
Here’s how regional transportation spending may look over the next few years
Billions of dollars will go into highways over the next three years in the Baltimore region despite public sentiment showing a desire for more balanced spending for transit and other options.
From left, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Gov. Wes Moore, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller smile for a group photo ahead of a press conference on the full reopening of the Fort McHenry federal channel and the restoration of full services to the Port of Baltimore in Dundalk on June 12, 2024.
With port access restored, state, federal leaders say rebuilding bridge is next
With one phase of the job complete, Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday he will not be satisfied, “until I can look over on the Patapsco and see the Key Bridge standing tall again.”
The Maryland Transit Administration released results of extensive data modeling for all three Red Line options last year.
Hopkins agrees with the MTA: Red Line will increase job access in the region
A new Johns Hopkins data model echoes what the MTA said almost a year ago — the coming Red Line will increase access to jobs.
A rectangular grey box that houses an automated traffic camera stands on a city sidewalk as a blurred black SUV drives by.
Click, click: Automated speed cameras to target speeders in 2 new city school zones
Drivers caught going at least 12 mph over the legal limit near four Baltimore schools could face $40 fines starting Monday.
A person scooters across Pratt Street as others wait for the bus on Thursday, March 14, 2024.
Maryland officials want a ‘culture change’ that puts road safety first
A new Complete Streets policy — which seeks to prioritize the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and people using mobility devices in the design of roads — will now cover all major state transportation projects.
A large pile of coal can be seen from the surrounding neighborhood outside of the CSX facility in Curtis Bay on Aug. 4, 2023.
The world wants American coal. Curtis Bay residents say they pay the price.
Greenhouse gas emissions are coming down in Maryland. But record levels of coal leaving Baltimore are driving emissions overseas.
Salvage crews successfully removed the final large steel truss segment of the fallen Key Bridge on June 3-4.
The last of the Key Bridge wreckage is almost gone from the Patapsco River
Salvage crews removed the final large piece of steel truss blocking the Port of Baltimore’s main shipping channel earlier this week, pulling one of the last remnants of the fallen bridge out of the water and clearing the way for the channel’s full reopening, the Unified Command said in a Wednesday release.
The Baltimore skyline is seen behind wreckage from the Key Bridge collapse on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
Calling all contractors: the MDTA is now taking bids for the Key Bridge rebuild
The state transportation department is accepting bids for the Key Bridge rebuild until June 24.
Exterior of the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Maryland Transit Administration building in downtown Baltimore on Aug. 11, 2022.
MARC offering discounts on some commuter train, bus routes amid DC Metro construction
The Maryland Transit Administration is offering discounted rates on certain trains and buses while D.C.-area commuters deal with closures along Metro’s Red Line.
The bridge welcoming visitors to Old Ellicott City as seen on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024.
Howard County’s plan for safer, accessible roads is drawing national attention. Here’s why.
Howard County’s finalized budget will put more than $14 million into its Complete Streets program, recognized by Smart Growth America as having the best policy of 1,700 across the U.S.
The wreckage of the Key Bridge collapse, with the Domino Sugar factory in the foreground, is seen from the Baltimore World Trade Center on Saturday, April 6, 2024. Tugboats on May 20 escorted the Dali from the Key Bridge collapse site to a dock in the Port of Baltimore.
After Key Bridge collapse, Johns Hopkins engineers are studying the risk of US bridges being hit
Calling the March 26 crash that toppled the Key Bridge a “wake-up call,” Johns Hopkins says a team will undertake an “urgent assessment” of bridges across the U.S.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 22:  Passengers walk through a terminal at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) on December 22, 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland.
BWI retail worker loses airport access after TSA finds loaded handgun at checkpoint
TSA intercepted its 21st gun of the year at BWI airport on Sunday — this time, an airport employee brought it.
Archbishop William Lori is shown in his conference room in September 2023.
8 Catholic churches got a reprieve from the archdiocese. 3 weren’t so lucky.
The blueprint released Wednesday closely tracks the draft plan that the archdiocese put out in April, reducing the number of parishes — or Catholic communities — from 61 to 23. The number of actual churches would shrink from 59 to 30. But Archbishop William Lori did spare eight churches initially, while delivering some late bad news to others.
The side of a bus is shown. Words on it say "CHARM CITY CIRCULATOR" and "FAST. FRIENDLY."
Next stop, Cherry Hill, for Baltimore’s free Circulator bus service
The Charm City Circulator, a free bus service that operates four routes through the city’s core, will add a new route that crosses the Hanover Street Bridge to Cherry Hill starting June 23. The new line will include stops in Baltimore Peninsula, Riverside and Federal Hill before terminating at the Inner Harbor.
The Dali cargo ship was moved from the Key Bridge wreckage site on Monday. (Wesley Lapointe/The Baltimore Banner)
Dali has left Key Bridge wreckage site, but work is far from done, Moore says
Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday thanked the Unified Command and other officials for a quick and decisive response to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. But the mission is far from complete, he said.
A group of cyclists bike left to right down a city street.
Bike advocates say now is a moment for change in Southeast Baltimore
Advocates say that two recent crashes on East Baltimore Street highlight the need for better bike infrastructure in Baltimore’s Southeast neighborhoods.
Cynthia Mendoza poses for a photograph in front of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church Wednesday, May 8, 2024 in Baltimore.
Latino immigrants fill pews even as Baltimore Catholic churches empty
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is set to finalize its plan to close churches next month. That includes some where Hispanic congregations worship.
Superpedestrian, the company behind the yellow Link scooters on Baltimore’s streets, suddenly went out of business at the end of 2023.
A new scooter company will be coming to Baltimore in July. Who will it be?
After Superpedestrian suddenly went out of business at the end of last year, Baltimore’s transportation department will bring in another scooter company.
CSX is raising the height clearance at the Howard Street Tunnel and other choke points so that it can accommodate double-stacked cargo freight trains. The work comes nearly a quarter-century after an underground chemical fire in the tunnel shut down parts of downtown for nearly a week.
A matter of inches: Howard Street tunnel project to clear path for double-stacked cargo trains
Once rehabilitated, the Howard Street freight rail tunnel will be a game changer for the Port of Baltimore.
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