Board of Public Works approves travel plaza contract 

BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: March 7, 2012
Tags: areas usa, board of public works, Cecil County, Chesapeake House, harford county, hmshost, i-95, Intersate 95, martin O'Malley, maryland house, maryland transportation authority, Nancy K. Kopp, peter franchot, travel plaza, xavier rabell

ANNAPOLIS — Two Interstate 95 travel plazas will be “like-new” by December 2014 after the Maryland House and Chesapeake House are renovated to bring the facilities up to par with other plazas on the east coast. The Board of Public Works Wednesday voted 2-1 to approve the disputed contract to renovate the travel plazas in [...]

Bethesda-based HMSHost will keep its travel plaza protest alive 

BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: March 5, 2012
Tags: board of public works, comptroller peter franchot, highway, maryland transportation authority, nancy kopp, O'Malley, tolls, transportation secretary beverley swaim-staley, travel plaza

Lawyers for the losing bidder on a project to renovate two Interstate 95 travel plazas will try to convince the Board of Public Works on Wednesday that the Maryland Transportation Authority violated procurement law in the bid process. The board could vote on the contract award during its regular meeting Wednesday morning in Annapolis. Bethesda-based [...]

Judge dissolves I-95 travel plaza restraining order 

BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: March 2, 2012
Tags: areas usa, Beverley K. Swaim-Staley, board of public works, Chesapeake House, Eric M. Johnson, hmshost, Maryland Attorney General's Office, maryland house, maryland transportation authority, mdta, MontgomeryCounty Circuit Court, P3, public-private partnership

A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge Friday dissolved a restraining order that prevented the Board of Public Works from awarding a contract to redevelop two Interstate 95 travel plazas. With the restraining order rescinded, the board is free to vote on the contract award at its biweekly meeting Wednesday. Bethesda-based HMSHost, a losing bidder on [...]

Construction at Interstate 95 and Route 43 begins 

BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: February 27, 2012
Tags: construction, gov. o'malley, interstate 95, maryland transportation authority, route 43, Transportation Secretary Beverley K. Swaim-Staley

Construction at the Interstate 95 and Route 43 interchange, which officials say will drastically reduce congestion in the corridor by 2014, began Monday, the Maryland Transportation Authority said. The $142.6 million project is part of the state’s $1.03 billion plan to alleviate traffic by constructing express toll lanes along an 8-mile stretch of road from [...]

Week in review – 2/24/12: Grand Prix deal gets OK 

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 23, 2012
Tags: angelos, Baltimore, conviction, cybersecurity, deal, facebook, george huguely, Gov. Martin O’Malley, Grand Prix, h.l. mencken, Hollywood diner, lee e. stephens, maryland, maryland transportation authority, murder, murphy, national historic landmark, national institute of standards and technology, sen. barbara mikulski, trial, Week in Review

Grand Prix deal gets OK Baltimore’s Board of Estimates voted 3-2 Wednesday to approve a contract with Downforce Racing LLC for the right to run the Baltimore Grand Prix for the next five years. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, City Solicitor George A. Nilson and Director of Public Works Alfred H. Foxx voted to approve the contract; Comptroller [...]

Board of Public Works puts off vote on I-95 travel plaza modernization 

BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: February 22, 2012
Tags: Areas USA Inc., board of public works, Florida Turnpike, hmshost, i-95, interstate 95, maryland transportation authority, montgomery county circuit court, Nancy K. Kopp, peter franchot

ANNAPOLIS – The Board of Public Works Wednesday deferred its decision on a disputed contract proposal to renovate two travel plazas on Interstate 95 in Harford and Cecil counties. The deferment pushes the board’s vote to its next meeting, March 7. Comptroller Pete Franchot moved to defer the decision, with Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp seconding [...]

Lierman named to Red Line Citizens Advisory Council

BY: Wayne Countryman
POSTED: February 21, 2012
Tags: American Constitution Society, Brooke Lierman, Brown Goldstein & Levy, Center for American Progress, maryland transportation authority, Red Line Citizens Advisory Council

Brooke Lierman, an associate at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, of Baltimore, has been appointed to the Red Line Citizens Advisory Council. The CAC is responsible for advising the Maryland Transportation Authority on impacts, opportunities, and community concerns about the Red Line surface rail. Lierman clerked on Maryland’s federal district court for Chief Judges Benson Legg [...]

Local taxes for transit projects proposed 

BY: Nicholas Sohr
POSTED: February 8, 2012
Tags: House Appropriations Committee, local, maryland, maryland transportation authority, mta, plan, proposal, Taxes, Transportation

ANNAPOLIS – As Gov. Martin O’Malley prepares to introduce a plan to raise taxes on gasoline, some state lawmakers are pushing their own proposals to pay for the massive transit projects at the top of the state’s transportation to-do list. The alternatives could lead to higher taxes, but only in those areas served most heavily [...]

Cattle prod found in passenger’s carry-on at BWI

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 2, 2012
Tags: baltimore washington thurgood marshall international airport, BWI Airport, carry-on luggage, cattle prod, delaware, Linthicum, maryland transportation authority, transportation security administration, tsa, weapon

LINTHICUM — A Delaware man has been cited with stashing a compact cattle prod in his carry-on luggage at BWI. The Transportation Security Administration says checkpoint officers at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport discovered the prod in the carry-on luggage of a passenger bound for Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday. TSA spokesman Kawika Riley says the [...]

Maryland’s I-95 travel plazas to be replaced in public-private partnership

BY: Nicholas Sohr
POSTED: January 23, 2012
Tags: Areas USA MDTP, baskin-robbins, Caribou Coffee, Chesapeake House, Cosi, Dunkin’ Donuts, Earl of Sandwich, i-95, interstate 95, Jamba Juice, Jerry’s Subs & Pizza, Mary Beyer Halsey, maryland house, maryland transportation authority, Nathan’s Famous, P3, Pizza Hut, public-private partnership, qdoba mexican grill, Wendy’s, Wetzel’s Pretzels

ANNAPOLIS — A Miami-based company will spend $56 million to redesign and rebuild the state’s aging travel plazas on Interstate 95 under a deal approved Monday by the Maryland Transportation Authority. Under the public-private partnership, or “P3,” the state will continue to own the facilities and expects to collect more than $400 million in revenue [...]

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