Momentum might be building to build up the U.S. infrastructure

November 17, 2008

By the end of next year Americans will likely be sick and tired of hearing the word "infrastructure."

Recent columns

• Transit hearing could be disabled

  November 10, 2008

  The Maryland Transit Administration held a public hearing Thursday night on its proposed Red Line - but not everybody could attend.

• MVA chief is passionate about better training for teen drivers

  November 3, 2008

  John T. Kuo still remembers vividly every detail of the night in 1972 when he became an only child.

• Health is a reason to interrupt a police funeral procession

  October 27, 2008

  Police and firefighter funerals are turning into the topic that just won't go away.

• Emotion, pragmatism still clashing in debate over funeral processions

  October 20, 2008

  Some folks find it easy to dismiss the people who complain about the traffic tie-ups that result from police funerals as heartless cranks. Others have no problem scorning the officers in those motorcades as public-be-damned obstructionists taking part in what one reader called "long, pagan spectacle funerals."

• Big funeral processions are a police tradition

  October 13, 2008

  There are certain issues that are so sensitive that nobody talks about them until one bold person steps forward and breaks the ice.

• Motorists ring a peal over tolls

  October 6, 2008

  To say that Bryan D. Fischer of Timonium wasn't persuaded by my Sept. 15 column suggesting variable tolls to relieve congestion on the Bay Bridge is putting it mildly.

• Soliciting I-70 suggestions from amateur highway engineers: yep, that's you, motorist

  September 22, 2008

  Getting There readers had plenty to say about my column on interchange design and motorcycle safety.

• Ellicott City residents take aim at site of fatal crash

  September 8, 2008

  Interstate 70 and U.S 29 in Ellicott City meet at one of the more puzzling interchanges around Baltimore. To many who live nearby, it looks like a death trap.

• A new route to a green arena

  September 1, 2008

  My colleague Dan Rodricks has made a persuasive case for replacing 1st Mariner Arena with a world-class facility - built to the highest "green" standards and capable of drawing professional sports teams and top-flight entertainment events.

• Compassion for driver in fatal crash — and accountability

  August 25, 2008

  My Aug. 11 column about the death of Charles Stoecker on a country road just south of the Pennsylvania line - and the devastation it caused his family - brought some interesting reaction.

• ICC opponents can keep project honest

  November 26, 2007

  The toothpaste is out of the tube. The fat lady has not only sung; she's cooling down with a post-operatic beer. The Rubicon has been crossed - by a six-lane toll bridge.