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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg connected Tuesday joined Baltimore City leaders to observe and sermon a $22 cardinal assistance for the city’s East-West Corridor Transportation Project.
The assistance came from the highly-competitive Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program. It’s portion of a $50 cardinal concern that includes different $18 cardinal from the Maryland Department of Transportation and $10 cardinal from Baltimore City DOT.
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“There were astir 10 cardinal dollars successful requests for 1 cardinal dollars of backing successful this program, truthful lone the astir compelling projects were capable to marque the chopped and get funded,” said Buttigieg. “And this was 1 of them for truthful galore reasons.”
The proscription task volition heighten the 10-mile way presently served by the CityLink Blue and Orange, which spans from Eastern Baltimore County to Western Baltimore County.
Among the improvements planned are astatine slightest 10 miles of dedicated autobus lanes, real-time accomplishment signage, ADA entree improvements and enhancements to pedestrian and motorcycle information similar crosswalks and a buffered motorcycle lane. Many of the improvements are designed to amended buses’ on-time performance.
Mayor Brandon Scott said helium remembers waking up astatine 5:30 successful the greeting for the autobus successful West Baltimore conscionable to get to precocious schoolhouse connected clip successful East Baltimore connected time.
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“Whether you are a pupil taking nationalist transit to schoolhouse oregon a seasoned nonmigratory hoping to marque a doctor’s appointment, oregon simply trying to get to enactment connected time, this task volition greatly amended connectivity and access,” Scott said.
Buttigieg said the task was compelling and was chosen for the assistance due to the fact that it connected radical to jobs, education, work and each other.
The autobus routes link respective residential communities and employment centers similar the Social Security Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the cardinal concern territory of downtown Baltimore and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital.
“The constituent of proscription is to link people, not to disconnect, and present we person an accidental request to bash thing astir that,” helium said. “The East-West precedence corridor is an ambitious imaginativeness to link the city, to make jobs, and to assistance much radical successful Baltimore entree opportunities.”
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