Infrastructure

“I think of the workforce system as infrastructure too. It's the roads and bridges that connect people to the good jobs they want and need."

President Biden, Gov. Moore and Mayor Scott on Monday called the new Tunnel project a boon to regional transit and local jobs. Today, perspectives from a Banner reporter, and a local tunnel opponent.

The proposed Baltimore-Potomac Tunnel Replacement Program is slated to build a new tunnel, renovating a 150-year-old project operated by Amtrak, with two tubes that softens otherwise tight turns among other improvements.

The Jobs That Build program aims to help meet the demand for workers for state and local projects generated by federal infrastructure measures.

It’s one more step toward a new Chesapeake Bay crossing.

We’ll go On the Record with the White House emissary for fixing problems at ports, and with a University of Maryland logistics expert, to understand why America’s shopping binge is snarling up the supply chain, and what might solve the mess.

Achieving the full promise of the hard-won, trillion-dollar plan will be the next daunting challenge, says Kevin DeGood, a leading infrastructure analyst.

Looking out onto the six-lane stretch of highway that separates one West Baltimore neighborhood from another, Glenn Smith remembers what used to be.

Maryland's junior senator joins us to describe what the massive new spending means for the state's economy.

Pete Buttigieg visits Baltimore to tout President Biden’s infrastructure plan. And we look into Mayor Brandon Scott’s comprehensive violence prevention plan for the city.