The Democratic-led House approved a sizable $715 billion transportation bill Thursday, a potential investment in roads, rail, public transit and water over five years.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday reinstated an Obama-era pilot program that aims to aid minorities and disadvantaged people by ensuring local hiring for public works construction projects, reversing a decision by the Trump administration.

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The Baltimore region has historically failed due to its lack of action or poor decision-making on transportation issues, both transit and highways.

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Plans for the $5.5 billion Port Covington redevelopment are designed to adjust to how residents will get around Baltimore in the future, according to executives of the lead developer.

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There’s a particular image Sheri Parks recalls from researching what residents in Baltimore’s low-income neighborhoods want from smart cities technology: children, crowded around school buildings after dismissal, with cellphones out, doing homework because of limited access to fast, reliable Wi-Fi at home or in their neighborhood.

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Baltimore is still licking its wounds from losing the Red Line light rail project, and transportation woes remain a hurdle to economic development in Maryland’s largest city. Nonprofit executives, developers and academics repeatedly discussed the lack of investment in Baltimore’s transportation ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan ordered his state transportation secretary Friday to seek a new contract to oversee the largest public-private highway project in the country saying a recent contract that was put on hold lacked public transparency.

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D, said Tuesday his state has done its part for Metro by urging board reforms and pledging to provide dedicated funding, and he called on Maryland and the District to join the effort.

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An effort to repeal a recently enacted law that requires the state to score and rank local transportation projects will be part of Gov. Larry Hogan’s legislative package when the 2017 session begins in less than a month. Hogan speaking ...

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A new commuter bus route is being rolled out from Baltimore to Aberdeen Proving Ground. The Maryland Transit Administration is launching the new route on Monday. The new service is one of three new or improved commuter bus services that ...

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