Improving Public Transit in Maryland

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Comments re: 2050 Maryland Transportation Plan

Comments re: 2050 Maryland Transportation Plan

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Please consider these recommendations for refining the 2050 Maryland Transportation Plan proposed list of guiding principles, goals, and priorities, and addressing in the plan’s strategies:
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Testimony: Prince George’s FY24 budget

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Continue affordable housing funding, support better buses, implement complete streets CSG-comments-on-PGC-FY24-budget-1Download
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Testimony: MD State Highway Administration FY24 budget oversight hearing

Testimony: MD State Highway Administration FY24 budget oversight hearing

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The Transform Maryland Transportation Coalition is asking MDOT to flex 50% of the federal funds, as allowed by federal law, from the Surface Transportation Block Grant and National Highway Performance Program formulas towards needed investments in eligible transit, safer streets, bicycle, and pedestrian projects, and vehicle electrification.
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EVENT: Better Buses for Prince George’s: What Does it Take?

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On November 9, 2022, RISE Prince George's and CSG hosted a discussion with Metro and Prince George's County to talk about how we can get more frequent, reliable, and accessible bus service that better meets the needs of riders and residents in Prince George’s and our region. These transit providers
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TAKE ACTION: Prince George's needs safer streets and better transit for livable communities

TAKE ACTION: Prince George’s needs safer streets and better transit for livable communities

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Maryland Department of Transportation will present its six-year transportation budget plan to Prince George’s officials this Thursday. The project list has some good projects, including the Purple Line, Metro, walk and bike safety, and support for transit-oriented development along the Blue Line Corridor. But also plans a lot of bad spending for road expansion that will fuel sprawling, traffic-generating development in the remaining rural areas of the county, and a continued failure to redesign existing roads to make them safer.
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