by Christopher Imms | Jan 13, 2022
The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Board has named William Pines, PE, PMP, CCM as Acting Executive Director of the 1,800-employee agency that oversees the state’s eight toll facilities and the DriveEzMD Maryland system, effective immediately. Mr. Pines has...
by MDOT Communications Team | Jan 12, 2022
James F. Ports, Jr., was sworn in Tuesday, January 11, as the 17th Secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), the latest achievement in a public service career spanning more than 30 years, including two decades in transportation at the local, state...
by Meredith Devereux | May 24, 2021
May 10-14th was infrastructure week, but when you work in the transportation sector, every week is infrastructure week. A system of modern transportation infrastructure is critical for Maryland residents and businesses. That’s what we’re working hard to build at the...
by Meredith Devereux | Apr 28, 2021
April is Work Zone Safety Awareness Month, and I’m asking everyone to truly listen to the messages coming from state departments of transportation across the country on this topic. I started with the Maryland Department of Transportation in the 1990s in the Plats and...
by Christopher Imms | Sep 21, 2020
Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford recently joined Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Chairman and MDOT Secretary Greg Slater on a visit to the site of the new Nice/Middleton Bridge (US 301) project in southern Maryland. Governor Larry Hogan has long been committed...
by Christopher Imms | Jul 29, 2020
For more than 15 years, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Memorial Highway (MD 24) in Edgewood has stood as a monument to those who fought, and those who died, in the Vietnam War. But after a huge storm in April of this year, the memorial was not completely...
