Motorists in Maryland could be looking at a toll increase four years sooner than expected as the result of toll reductions that begin to take effect on July 1. Briefing documents on the toll reductions that were presented to the Maryland Transportation Authority Board in May show that the reductions championed by Gov. Larry Hogan have moved up the projected timeline for the next toll increase by four years.

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State transportation officials are expected to take up proposed reductions of tolls at a hastily scheduled public meeting Thursday morning. Details of the proposal are being kept secret. A notice posted on the Maryland Transportation Authority website Tuesday announced the ...

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(AP) A Maryland Transportation Authority police officer has been convicted in the off-duty assault of a man who was beaten in the head with a gun. A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge convicted 41-year-old Derwin Waldron on two assault charges ...

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State transportation officials Wednesday sought to reassure the public of the safety of Baltimore's metro system following a highly publicized release of video that shows an assault on the subway system.

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The Maryland Transportation Authority board has approved spending $50 million on preliminary work toward replacing the Gov. Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge. The two-lane, 72-year-old bridge carries U.S. 301 across the Potomac River from Charles County to King George County, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The truck driver who hit a car sending it off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge last summer has pleaded guilty to four charges. The Capital reports that 30-year-old Gabor Lovasz of Canada pleaded guilty last month to negligent driving, ...

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Greater Baltimore Committee President Donald C. Fry apparently does not recognize that something has gone seriously wrong with Baltimore’s proposed Red Line plan over the nearly a half-century since its inception. In the Oct. 17 Daily Record, he recalled how the east-west transit line was "included in the proposed Baltimore regional rail rapid transit system that was published in the GBC's 1968 annual report."

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ANNAPOLIS — Police in Anne Arundel County are teaming with the Maryland Transportation Authority police to conduct commercial vehicle safety inspections to help keep unsafe vehicles off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. On Tuesday, both agencies began the joint initiative. Transportation ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Distracted driving on the part of a truck driver caused a July crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge that sent a car falling 27 feet into the water, according to a Maryland Transportation Authority Police investigation released Thursday. ...

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A few Maryland government and politics headlines for Monday.

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