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Traffic Congestion Badly Hurts Baltimore Area	09/18/2007
Commuters in the Baltimore area wasted 30 million hours of additional time on the roads, and 19 million gallons of additional gas as a result of traffic congestion in 2005.
Traffic Congestion Badly Hurts D.C. Metro Area	09/18/2007
Marylanders commuting to the Washington D.C. area wasted more than 127 million hours of additional time on the roads, and over 90 million gallons of additional gas as a result of traffic congestion in 2005.
Local Leaders Cite New Report as Boosting MARC Expansion, Red Line	03/06/2008
The MARC expansion and Red Line received a boost today as city officials and civic leaders held an event at Baltimore’s Penn Station calling for approval of financing and citing a major new report on oil savings and other benefits from public transportation across the country. The Maryland PIRG report, A Better Way to Go: Meeting America’s 21st Century Transportation Challenges with Modern Public Transit, examines the challenges faced by America’s transportation system and the benefits of existing rail and bus projects in Maryland and other states.