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Maryland officials approve more Purple Line money

March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 Baltimore Post-Examiner Staff

Nearly seven years after construction began, transit authorities returned to the Board of Public Works yet again this month, this time seeking an additional $425 million for the light-rail project.  It was the fourth such request since 2016 to supplement the Purple Line’s original $5.6 billion budget.

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All aboard the high-speed rail

December 20, 2016 Maryland Reporter

By Michael Collins For MarylandReporter.com The Hogan administration secured a $27.8 million federal grant last month to study the feasibility

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Red Line dead: Hogan’s ‘best way’ for Baltimore is what?

June 29, 2015 Maryland Reporter

By Len Lazarick [email protected] Key moments in Gov. Larry Hogan’s first term took place last week, but it is unclear

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Hogan’s ‘incredible’ maglev gaffe

June 8, 2015 Maryland Reporter

Above A maglev train in Japan.     By Barry Rascovar For MarylandReporter.com In the name of improved economic ties with

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Purple Line Part I: To build or not to build a $2.4 billion light rail line

January 19, 2015January 19, 2015 Maryland Reporter

Above: The Purple Line is planned to run through the heart of the College Park campus of the University of

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Teaching a friend to jump trains from Washington to Richmond

July 29, 2012April 18, 2015 Abdul Rahimov

After many years of solo riding, I was bringing along someone else for the first time — a coworker who

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Daytripping and ripping my pants on the way to Santa Fe

July 28, 2012July 27, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

“The Santa Fe has a reputation for speed.” That phrase from a business article rings true. The BNSF habitually attaches

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Riding with ‘ghosts’ from Hagerstown to Altoona

July 24, 2012July 23, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

It was time, after a long and gloomy hibernation in perhaps America’s foulest climate, to resume hitting the rails. From

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Literature Rail Rides and True Adventures Serial Novels 

Crossing Stampede in my secret life

June 26, 2012June 30, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

We all need secret lives. I had to flee again, back into the wilderness aboard a freight. They say the

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Train hopping from Portland to Nampa

June 21, 2012June 30, 2012 Abdul Rahimov

In his great hobo essay “The Road,” Jack London said that you always get turned away from the mansion on

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U.S. National Debt

The current U.S. national debt:
$36,216,429,412,019

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