The majority of funds in a $13 billion transportation program are going to Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced Monday.
Nearly $3 billion in funds will go to Baltimore County and $4.2 billion will go to the city as part of a six-year Consolidated Transportation Program.
“For the third year in a row, my administration has maintained a $13 billion transportation budget ? the largest in Maryland?s history,” Ehrlich said in a statement. “Two years after we passed the revenue increase, Maryland continues to reap the rewards of new investments across the state, from highways and transit, to the Port of Baltimore and Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.”
Secretary of Transportation Robert Flanagan met with officials in both jurisdictions Monday to inform them of the funding.
From toll revenues, Baltimore will receive $1.5 billion and Baltimore County will receive $284 million.
Projects in the city include: a $474,000 expansion of Key Highway from Interstate 95 to Lawrence Street to construct a 10-foot-wide bicycle pedestrian path; a $1.3 million extension of the Jones Falls Trail through Druid Hill Park to the Woodberry Light Rail stop; a $2.4 million construction of a segment of the Baltimore Waterfront Promenade at South Wolfe Street in Fells Point; a $2 million addition of 2.4 miles to the Jones Falls trail; a $1 million rehabilitation of the south car shop at the B&O Railroad Museum; a $896,000 rehabilitation to the 1896 B&O Station and Train Shed at the Mount Royal Station; and a $951,000 restoration to the Lower Stone Run stream near Cold Spring Lane.
