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By Jennifer Sullivan | April 24, 1999
Every school morning, Shawna Jeffress sprints through Mondawmin Transit Center.Sometimes, the Cherry Hill resident's subway train arrives late. Other times, the bus leaves minutes early. Either way, she usually misses the bus -- and the bell that starts her pre-nursing classes at Baltimore City Community College.Jeffress and many commuters want to improve the West Baltimore bus and subway depot and better coordinate schedules, which is why the Citizens Planning and Housing Association (CPHA)
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By Edward Lee | January 27, 1999
If Howard County transportation officials have their way, there could soon be a new evening bus route between residential and employment centers, a reduction in waiting time for riders and a resumption of service in the western county.Those were some of the services officials said they could offer if the state provides a 10 percent to 20 percent increase in transportation funding to the county for the fiscal year that begins July 1.Officials of Corridor Transportation Corp. are cautiously optimistic the county will get the money.
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By Mary Gail Hare | June 7, 1998
Carroll County residents have consistently opposed bringing public transportation in from Baltimore, but they might support expanding Carroll Transit, a bus system that operates 19 vans in the Westminster area.The concept came from a forum organized Friday by state transportation planners in Westminster. Many of the 30 participants viewed Carroll Transit, a private, nonprofit company that primarily serves the elderly and disabled, as the answer to public transportation needs."We should connect all major activity centers in all municipalities," said Janet Gregor, county transportation planner.
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By Mary Gail Hare | June 7, 1998
County residents have consistently opposed bringing public transportation from Baltimore into Carroll, but they might support expanding Carroll Transit, a bus system that operates 19 vans in the Westminster area.The concept came from a forum organized by state transportation planners in Westminster Friday. Many of the 30 participants viewed Carroll Transit, a private, nonprofit company that primarily serves the elderly and disabled, as the answer to public transportation needs."We should connect all major activity centers in all municipalities," said Janet Gregor, county transportation planner.
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By BRIAN SULLAM | January 19, 1997
GLEN BURNIE residents may be on the verge of making the same mistake residents of Georgetown made during the planning of the Washington subway system.Nearly three decades ago, residents of that exclusive neighborhood in the nation's capital convinced the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Administration not to build a station off the subway tunnel that was to run beneath their neighborhood.At the time, they complained that the stops would transport hordes of people to the area's sleepy commercial district and transform it into a noisy entertainment center of bars and restaurants.
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By Marina Sarris | November 18, 1996
Ridership on the Baltimore area's bus, light rail and subway systems has risen more than 4 percent since March, when transit officials took the controversial step of raising fares and shortening some bus routes.Higher fares and more riders? The news defies an industry maxim that says, in essence, when you raise rates, you lose passengers."That definitely goes against the grain of what one would normally expect to happen after a fare increase," said Dennis M. Kouba, spokesman for the American Public Transit Association, an industry trade group in Washington.
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By Dan Thanh Dang | December 26, 1996
Annapolis has moved one step closer to building its first publicly owned bus terminal in the city.The Mass Transit Administration received about $2 million in transit funds this week to help pay for statewide projects such as purchasing buses and computer software and hardware, according to Democratic U.S. Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Paul S. Sarbanes.Part of those funds, issued by the Federal Transit Administration, will pay for a study that will create a design for a bus terminal and transfer center for the state's capital.
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By ROBERT C. KEITH | December 4, 1994
Recently, I decided to analyze the triumphs and tragedies of my ancestors (the Scots) by attending an early evening seminar at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.Being as pigheaded as they, I decided to attempt the trip -- Fells Point to the nation's Mall and back -- entirely by public transit. This included use of Mass Transit Administration (MTA) buses whose numbers and destination markings were mysterious to me.Using the bus for the 10-minute trip downtown meant a five-block walk to the nearest stop, a wait, and a three-block walk to the Camden Yards MARC station.
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By Peter Jensen | November 2, 1994
Plans to expand the Central Light Rail Line received a major boost yesterday with a pledge of $85 million in construction funds from the federal government.The money will cover 80 percent of the cost to extend light rail to Hunt Valley, Baltimore-Washington International Airport and Pennsylvania Station. The remaining $21 million of the $106 million project will come from the state.Federal Transit Administration (FTA) officials yesterday also pledged $37 million for improvements to the Maryland Rail Commuter (MARC)
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By Peter Jensen | May 30, 1994
A federal audit criticizing management of the Mass Transit Administration's bus fleet has caused the state agency to lose $6 million in federal funds.The report issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General says the MTA keeps dozens more buses in stock than it needs, disposes of buses without properly compensating the federal government and has not conducted a proper inventory in 15 years.As a result of the April 22 report, the MTA has agreed to purchase 30 fewer buses this year than the 125 originally planned, amounting to a savings to the federal government of about $6 million.