Posts tagged Larry Hogan
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Breakfast links: Keep DC desirable
Still a magnet for millennials?; Boomers shift to the city; Will WMATARU succeed?; Pro-Bowser PAC launches; Bad tunnel deal; Service dog problems; Hogan’s popular; School boundary shuffle; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving, moving, moving
Move to Largo; Wooing Marriott; No more MARC and VRE?; No money for Baltimore; Happy, but noncommital; New start for College Park; Tree hugger; NY ❤ Uber; Too much parking. Keep reading…
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Hogan shifted transit money to roads. Here’s what he’ll build
When Maryland governor Larry Hogan canceled Baltimore’s Red Line and cut state funding from the Purple Line, he shifted over a billion dollars from transit to road construction. Here are the road projects he plans to build with that money. Keep reading…
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The Baltimore Red Line does need a tunnel, despite its cost
Last week, Maryland governor Larry Hogan announced the state will not move forward with the Baltimore Red Line. He argued building it would be too expensive, particularly the tunnel that would have run through downtown. Was the tunnel necessary? Keep reading…
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Hogan will build the Purple Line, not the Red Line
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced today the state will build the Purple Line, but cancel the Baltimore Red Line. Hogan announced his decision to build the light rail line at a Keep reading…
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Maryland’s governor thinks the Purple Line is too expensive, but wants to build a $10 billion maglev. Huh?
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan campaigned on cutting costs. Since taking office, however, he’s expressed interest in throwing big money at numerous transportation programs — just not the transit lines that actually work and which businesses and residents want. His latest big spending idea: A $10 billion maglev between DC and Baltimore. Keep reading…
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Hogan stalls on the Purple Line, calls it too expensive
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has still made no decision on the Purple Line (or, if he has, is refusing to announce one) while calling the project’s current costs “not acceptable.” Hogan had been expected to decide around “mid-May,” but told the Washington Post Friday that a decision would come “in the next month sometime.” This… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Repeat
Not again; Purple politics; No blocked docks; Skip the bag, skip the cleanup; Keep families in DC; Write-in wins; Invest in transit; The real story; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Reform needed
Similar but differen-T; The safety dance; Goodbye and good luck; New consensus on I-66; Standing still; Driving the disconnect; All AP all the time; And…. Keep reading…
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Reform WMATA? Slash and burn? Or stay the course?
What does WMATA need? Just more money, and otherwise everything is okay? Major cuts, abandoning hope of eight-car trains and fixing the Blue Line in this generation? Or a balance of real management reforms and more investment at the same time? These are the positions Virginia, Maryland, and DC officials, respectively, are taking. In a recent article in the Washington Post, Abigail… Keep reading…