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What’s New at MDOT
MDOT Insider is back here with the latest updates on transportation projects and initiatives across Maryland!
Maryland Transit Administration helps clear the air with transition to zero-emission buses
When does zero mean more than zero? When it’s about the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration’s zero-emission buses. As the name implies, the buses have zero carbon emissions, since they’re electric. It also means zero engine noise,...
Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld sworn into office
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...
Earth Day 2021: MDOT smart ponds use innovative stormwater management to help protect the Chesapeake Bay
As Sandy Hertz walked the perimeter of a small pond in Wicomico County one recent afternoon, a...
Archaeology team led by MDOT SHA discovers homesite of Harriet Tubman’s father
Deep in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, the Maryland Department of...
MDOT SHA archaeologists work to unearth possible homesite of Harriet Tubman’s father
As fog burned off the wetlands at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge one recent morning, Dr....
Highway response teams continue to help motorists during pandemic
It was a chilly spring morning when a driver with the MDOT State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) Coordinated Highways Action Response Team (CHART) came across a disabled vehicle on the side of I-695. While the disabled vehicle wasn’t unusual – CHART personnel...
MDOT MTA Police, MDTA Police team with Maryland State Police for Red Cross blood drive
As COVID-19 continues to impact communities across the country, blood supplies at the American Red Cross have dropped dramatically. Now, Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Police and Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration (MDOT...
MDOT purchases hand sanitizer from St. Michaels distillery to protect frontline workers
When Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) Secretary Greg Slater pulled into Windon Distilling in St. Michaels one recent afternoon, he wasn’t thinking about the spirits normally distilled inside. Instead, Secretary Slater had safety on his mind. The secretary...
BWI badging agents deliver so goods can keep being delivered during pandemic
It was mid-January when a representative from Amazon contacted BWI Marshall Airport with news that the company would need badges for an influx of new employees. The coronavirus was devastating countries overseas, and health experts predicted the United States was...
Dignified Transfer pays tribute to fallen U.S. Marine
As the remains of a fallen U.S. Marine were loaded onto a plane one recent morning at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, travelers pressed their faces against the windows above and peered down at the tarmac. There, dozens of members of the BWI family had lined up to...