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    Emergency bridge repairs are forcing road closures on a section of Gwynnbrook Avenue at Walk Avenue in Owings Mills starting Feb. 28, 2025.
    Owings Mills road closed for emergency bridge repairs due to erosion
    The Baltimore County Department of Public Works plans to close a section of Gwynnbrook Avenue at Walk Avenue in Owings Mills for emergency bridge repairs for at least a week.
    Traffic travels on the outer loop of I-695 at Falls Road as rain falls on the region.
    Roadwork could disrupt traffic on the Beltway and I-795 starting next week
    Drivers in Baltimore County may experience some delays in the coming weeks due to a set of roadwork projects on Interstates 695 and 795.
    Brooke Bourne, a senior at Western High School, has quite the journey home from school. She takes a bus and the subway to get home on a foggy December day. Each form of transit has nine stops.
    Letter: Are student transportation problems tied partly to lack of auto insurance?
    Al Redmer Jr., executive director of Maryland Auto Insurance, says the difficulties facing students getting to school on time are likely exacerbated by problems many people face getting auto insurance.
    BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Executive Director/CEO, Ricky Smith, poses for a portrait in the airport's terminal on July 23, 2024.
    BWI airport’s top official is taking off for Atlanta
    Ricky Smith, the Maryland Aviation Administration’s top official, is taking off for a new job running the Atlanta airport.
    Single-engine plane loses power and makes emergency landing in Anne Arundel County
    A single-engine airplane made an emergency landing Saturday in Anne Arundel County after losing power, according to Maryland State Police.
    Ball falls through the net during the Shaw University vs. Winston-Salem State game during the CIAA  tournament at CFG Bank Arena, Thursday, February 23, 2023.
    Heavy traffic expected for CIAA tournament: What to know about getting around downtown
    Plan ahead if you're traveling through Baltimore this week because traffic is expected to be heavier than usual due to the CIAA tournament at CFG Bank Arena.
    The jobs being cut from the airline are about 15% of corporate positions and include eleven “senior leadership” positions.
    Southwest Airlines layoffs not expected to affect BWI
    Last week, BWI’s largest carrier said it was cutting about 1,750 jobs.
    A’Nya Lucas, a senior at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School, rides the bus across Baltimore, MD on Nov. 14, 2024. Lucas’ bus ride takes over an hour.
    We tracked every MTA bus Baltimore students ride to school. Here’s how.
    This first-of-its-kind analysis shows it’s nearly impossible for city students to get to school on time every day on public transit.
    Brooke Bourne, a senior at Western High School, has quite the journey home from school. She takes a bus and the subway to get home on a foggy December day. Each form of transit has nine stops.
    Transit nightmare: Thousands of Baltimore kids can’t get to school on time
    Unreliable public transportation turns school choice into a false promise.
    An orange flight data and cockpit voice recorder box sits on a yellow bag labeled "CAUTION." Two NTSB investigators are holding the edges of the bag and starting to lift it over the box.
    Helicopter pilots in DC midair collision may have missed critical instruction, seen faulty data
    The crew of the Black Hawk helicopter involved in a midair collision with an American Airlines jet may not have heard a key directive from air traffic control and might have been viewing faulty flight data.
    Loyal Southwest Airlines customers have a new option for getting to Europe.
    Southwest Airlines can help get you from BWI to Europe, starting today
    Loyal Southwest Airlines customers can now use the carrier to book connections to Europe.
    A former rail bridge crosses over Eastern Avenue near South Haven Street. Baltimore had to return a state grant it planned to use for acquiring a 1.5-mile railroad right-of-way in East Baltimore for the Greenway Trails Network.
    Baltimore loses grant for Greenway Trail after letting it sit for years
    Maryland recently took back a $1.5 million grant for a high-profile, multi-use trail after Baltimore officials failed to use the money for years.
    A woman in a red shirt stands in front of a desk and emblem of the City of Baltimore, flanked by a United States flag and a City of Baltimore flag.
    Baltimore’s transportation director is a hotshot, but her new job won’t be easy
    The agency has spent years tripping over itself, both with major capital projects and smaller, day-to-day responsibilities.
    When crews need to perform track maintenance inside, the entire B&P Tunnel must shut down to train traffic.
    Why a 150-year-old tunnel under West Baltimore chokes Amtrak: Inside the B&P Tunnel
    West Baltimore's 150-year-old B&P Tunnel is crumbling, causing ongoing Amtrak delays and highlighting urgent infrastructure issues. Here's why repairs haven't solved the problem.
    The Better Transit Now campaign, a group of local advocates pushing for more investment at the Maryland Transit Administration, held rally in Annapolis on February 4, 2025. Students from Moravia Park Elementary, a Baltimore City school, rode the bus for two hours to attend. Sarah Atewogbola holds up a sign in front of the Maryland State House.
    Better transit now: Baltimore students and advocates rally in Annapolis
    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.
    A rendering of the plan for the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild was released at a press conference with Gov. Wes Moore in Edgemere, Md., on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.
    Key Bridge design unveiled: Towers will be taller than anticipated
    Officials unveiled a rendering of the replacement for the Key Bridge that was destroyed last March.
    A National Transportation Safety Board crew investigates the deadly midair collision above the Potomac River between a Black Hawk helicopter and a jet airliner.
    Salvage crews remove large portion of commercial jet from river after deadly air collision near DC
    Salvage crews have removed a large portion of a commercial jet from the Potomac River near Washington’s Reagan National Airport on Monday, five days after a midair collision last week that killed 67 people.
    Rush hour traffic on Interstate 695, the Baltimore Beltway.
    Construction on Baltimore Beltway near I-795 could bring delays
    Drivers on the Baltimore Beltway near Interstate 795 can expect delays from 4 p.m. Sunday to 1 p.m. Monday due to emergency culvert repairs.
    Cars parked along Wildwood Parkway during a street cleaning window in West Baltimore.
    Want to park illegally in Baltimore? You probably won’t get a ticket
    In 2024, transportation officers wrote almost one-third fewer parking tickets than what they wrote two years prior, according to enforcement data.
    Cars drive past the “Charm’tastic Mile” sign in downtown Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday, November 27, 2024.
    Almost been hit by a car in Baltimore? Transportation officials want to know where
    Baltimore’s transportation department has created an interactive map of the city for residents to report near misses.
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