It started with the bus ride to school. Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld said that when he was a teenager, he used to take the Number 8 bus from North Baltimore to high school in West Baltimore every day. The more than hour-long journey across the city...
Maryland Department of Transportation archaeologists were searching for homes of enslaved people on the farm where Harriet Tubman was born. They found a home – and a bit of Africa in the process. The discoveries, announced February 14 at an event at the Harriet...
There’s some “electrifying” news from the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) as more drivers make the switch to electric vehicles (EVs). Maryland was one of the first states to submit its National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) plan to utilize...
Discoveries of items ranging from Native American pottery to tobacco pipe stems are providing clues about how enslaved Africans and African Americans lived on a former Jesuit Plantation in St. Mary’s County. The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), in...
Two cabins on the historic Elkridge Furnace site in Howard County likely housed enslaved workers in the 1850s. That’s the conclusion of Dr. Julie Schablitsky, Chief of Cultural Resources at the Maryland Department of Transportation. In a partnership with the Maryland...
James Wolf saw grassy patches at his son’s school “begging for some trees.” So, the community group he’s a member of, Friends of Hampden, applied for a grant to do something about it. This spring, volunteers planted Redbud, Black Gum and White Oak trees at...
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...
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...
As Sandy Hertz walked the perimeter of a small pond in Wicomico County one recent afternoon, a deer startled and bounded into the woods. Geese protected large eggs at the water’s edge. Frogs croaked and ribbited. And down a hill by the pond’s spillway, a tiny turtle...
With Engineers Week upon us, Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) Deputy Secretary R. Earl Lewis Jr. sat down to discuss the importance of engineering in transportation. Deputy Secretary Lewis holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of...