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MARC adding weekend service between Baltimore, DC

Maryland is expanding MARC rail service beyond the work week. State transportation officials say the transportation bill signed Thursday includes $100 million for enhancement for MARC.

Tags: MARC, commuter trains, union station, Penn Station, Camden Yards

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Funding possible for 16 Northern Virginia road and 26 transit projects

The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority is one step closer to deciding what projects will get funding in July from the newly passed transportation package.

Tags: nvta, Ari Ashe, VRE, Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, Sean Connaughton

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Feds pass on funding Columbia Pike streetcar line

Arlington and Fairfax counties won't receive federal funding for a new streetcar line planned along Columbia Pike.

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Senate president expects transportation bill

Maryland's Senate president says he's confident Gov. Martin O'Malley will submit a transportation funding measure early next week.

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Senate vote passes $880 million highway reform

The Virginia Senate passed a transportation reform funding bill that would increase taxes in the region. But the new funding would provide enough money to extend Metrorail to Dulles among other transportation projects in Northern Virginia.

Tags: Virginia General Assembly, transportation funding reform bill, Metrorail

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With GOP split, Dems hold cards on roads bill fate

With Virginia Republicans split over a transportation funding compromise, Democrats may be the deciding factor in whether the first major reforms to Virginia's highway financing system in 27 years hits the governor's desk.

Tags: Virginia General Assembly, Medicaid

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Report: Gas tax hike would hurt Md. workers

Americans for Prosperity says raising Maryland's gas tax would kill about 1,000 jobs and hurt low- and middle-class workers the most.

Tags: Thomas V. Mike Miller, gas tax, Americans for Prosperity

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House, Senate negotiators on transportation reform

Two Northern Virginia lawmakers will negotiate a compromise transportation funding bill that could alter local and state taxes and the fate of the Silver Line to Dulles.

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Fairfax officials fear Silver Line funding in jeopardy

As Virginia lawmakers continue to debate how to pay for transportation projects in the state, Fairfax County officials fear the loss of $300 million that is slated to help pay for constructing the Silver Line to Dulles.

Tags: Virginia General Assembly, transportation funding reform bill, Silver Line, Sharon Bulova, Jeff McKay

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Va. Legislature considers income tax for roads, NOVA

Nine local governments in Northern Virginia would be allowed to impose an income to pay for local road projects under a bill advancing through the legislature. Local opponents liken the measure to legislative surrender as the state continues to struggle to fund transportation.

Tags: Chap Peterson, Virginia General Assembly, income taxes, Sharon Bulova

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