Baltimore police say an officer was seriously injured when she fell 20 to 25 feet from a bridge on the Jones Falls Expressway while working on a single-car accident. Police spokesman Detective Donny Moses says 27-year-old Officer Teresa Rigby was ...

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The “Highway to Nowhere,” closed since Sept. 10, reopened this week, to much cheering from those of us who commute into Baltimore from the south and/or west. It seemed that since work started on the Baltimore Grand Prix course (also ...

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Now that the weather’s nicer and traffic is just lousy around downtown already, commuting to work by bicycle is looking like a better option these days. Waterfront Partnership and Bike Maryland are teaming up to host a workshop June 30 ...

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The Inter-County Connector has performed up to expectations in little more than three months of channeling about 1 million paying drivers between Interstate 270 and Georgia Avenue in Montgomery County, transportation officials said Wednesday. Traffic on Maryland’s newest highway, officially ...

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Traffic planners have prescribed a novel decongestant for one clogged intersection near the Arundel Mills shopping mall, which is certain to grow even busier with the addition of a casino next year. Motorists may call it driving on the wrong ...

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Maryland is one of the best states in the country at measuring the performance of its transportation network, according to a report to be released Wednesday by The Pew Center on the States and The Rockefeller Foundation. The data collected ...

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Downtown traffic patterns will be complex this week as the cortege of former Gov. William Donald Schaefer passes through city neighborhoods for a final tipping of the wings Monday followed by Schaefer’s funeral on Wednesday. The city’s Department of Transportation ...

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Maryland transit officials are launching a new schedule for the heavily used MARC Penn Line in an effort to ease overcrowding and reduce stress on train engines. The Maryland Transit Administration says that beginning Monday it will run more trains ...

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LINTHICUM — Maryland officials say Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport hit an all-time record for passenger traffic in 2010. More than 21.9 million commercial passengers flew through the airport last year. That’s an increase of 4.7 percent over 2009 and ...

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DALLAS — Southwest Airlines Co. said Monday that traffic in January rose 13.2 percent from a year ago, and an important revenue measurement rose as passengers paid higher average fares. Southwest estimated that passenger revenue per available seat mile increased ...

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