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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do live in the exurbs (Frederick County) and I am really unclear on whether this will help. I am curious about the volume of traffic using the part that will be widened vs further north where it will not.

If there was more regular bus service to DC, I would 100% absolutely take it. Sitting in traffic is more tolerable if you can sleep or work so I really, really prefer ANY form of public transit. But bus to Shady Grove doesn't help me much.[b] What I would really like to see is MARC extended to L'Enfant.[/b] DC is a big city so it's the last few miles of the commute that are the killer if your office is far from the red line. Also, more telework. The last year has shown that we can do it so going back to the old routine seems [/quote]

The General Assembly passed a bill in 2020, and overrode Hogan's veto on it in 2021, that requires the Maryland Transit Administration to engage in good-faith negotiations with certain jurisdictions and train companies to reach an agreement on a pilot program to establish MARC train service between Union Station in the District of Columbia and Alexandria Station, Virginia. It also requires MTA to engage in negotiations with Delaware and certain train companies to reach an agreement on a pilot program to establish train service between Perryville, Maryland and Newark, Delaware.

If Hogan were actually interested in improving transportation for Marylanders, he wouldn't have vetoed this bill - or the bill passed in 2021 to help catch up to the state transit maintenance backlog (including MARC) and study the extension of MARC service to Hagerstown.[/quote]

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