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MTA to close three stations for Cold Springs emergency work
The Maryland Transit Administration announced today that recent heavy rains and soil erosion will require emergency repairs of tracks and land around the Cold Spring Station beginning Friday, June 20, 2014.
MTA officer with kid in car gets new hearing
A fired Maryland Transit Administration police officer will have a chance to get her job back after a Maryland appeals court held the police chief violated her rights by firing her without giving her a chance to be heard.
MTA rider knows his buses backwards
Thomas Reaves looks out the coffee shop window every few minutes as he talks. He pauses each time, just for a moment, no doubt calculating in his mind: late, on time, on time. He says he can tell if a bus is on schedule just by looking — he could tell even from a photograph, […]
Gerald Neily: Red Line plan should be stopped in its tracks
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 [...]
Donald C. Fry: Baltimore to become well-connected
The Baltimore region has been waiting for decades for a comprehensive, connected rail transit system.
O’Malley signs gas tax, announces projects
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley signed Maryland’s first gas tax increase in 20 years into law on Thursday and announced $1.2 billion in highway and transit projects. The new law levies a sales tax on gasoline on top of the state’s 23.5-cents per gallon tax. The sales tax, which will take effect in July, will […]
MTA unveils new vehicles to serve disabled riders
The Maryland Transit Administration is unveiling its new fleet of mobility vehicles to serve riders with disabilities. The transit agency is replacing its fleet of sedans and cut-away buses with new vehicles designed specifically for people in wheelchairs. They are called MV-1s. The first 10 MV-1 vehicles are now in service, and 30 more will […]
Senate votes to reconsider MTA audio-taping bill
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Senate has voted to reconsider an audio-taping measure that was rejected by lawmakers on Monday in a 23-22 vote. The bill, voted for reconsideration on Tuesday, prohibits the Maryland Transportation Authority from using audio-taping devices to record the conversations of passengers on transit vehicles. The legislation now goes back to the […]
MTA to resume bus service, reopen Baltimore subway
The Maryland Transit Administration plans to resume limited service after finding little damage from superstorm Sandy on its rail lines. Spokesman Terry Owens says Baltimore’s subway will resume operating at noon on Tuesday, along with limited local bus service and mobility paratransit service for disabled riders. Owens says there was no major flooding or damage […]
State politicians, agencies prepare for Hurricane Sandy
There may be nothing that sends government agencies and elected officials to their email lists with greater haste than an impending natural disaster.
Eye Opener: MTA recording bus conversations
A few government and politics headlines for Thursday.
MARC contract awarded to Bombardier Transportation Services USA
The Board of Public Works approved a contract Wednesday that will shift operation of MARC’s Camden and Brunswick passenger lines to the Pennsylvania subsidiary of a Montreal-based rail company, finally ending a process that began more than two years ago. Bombardier Transportation Services USA Corp., a subsidiary of Bombardier Inc., won the contract over Keolis […]
