MARC getting $10 million

The Obama stimulus package is due to give the MARC system more than $10 million for improvements, the Baltimore Sun reported today. From the article:

The projects, to be announced today by 2nd District Democratic Rep. C A. Dutch Ruppersberger, include $3 million to improve elevators and the heating and cooling system at the station at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The congressman also is expected to outline plans to spend $4 million for new canopies and windows at Penn Station and $400,000 for work at the MARC storage facility at Martin State Airport … More >>

Not all is happy this week in Charm City Transitland, however.

A blog posting at Baltimore Inner Space highlights the recent choice of the Baltimore Development Corporation to build a development in East Baltimore that, in the words of the blogger, makes no effort to exploit the potential for a transit station.

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