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Howard County government funding priorities and questionable school system budget management are to blame for chronic school bus service failures, Hiruy Hadgu, president of Progressive Democrats of Howard County, says.

The Maryland Transit Administration won’t charge for rides on all of its public transportation modes from Sept. 22-24.

Eleven children and an adult were injured in a crash involving a bus Monday morning in Bel Air, Maryland State Police said.

As Amtrak moves forward with its plans for a new tunnel under West Baltimore, residents in the area feel left in the dark.

Dozens of local drivers are working their way through a hiring pipeline, Superintendent Michael Martirano told board of education members.

The new, temporary contract will bump pay and offer better benefits for MV Transportation employees while union leaders continue to work for a long-term deal. Drivers have complained about bedbugs in some vans.

A key state board approved a revised contract for Maryland’s vehicle emissions stations on Wednesday, allowing the stations to implement a change in the program: New cars, trucks and SUVs will be exempt from testing for the first six years instead of the first three years.

“The failure of transportation is my responsibility,” former chief operating officer Scott Washington told the Banner on Wednesday. “Because of the result of transportation, I resigned.”

Currently, owners of brand-new vehicles don’t need to go through the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program for the first three years after purchase. That is likely to soon stretch to six years, as the state implements new rules that were adopted earlier this year.

I took the MTA's new QuickLink 40 across town and compared timestamps to the existing local routes. Here's how the trip went.

The bus contractor that abruptly canceled the routes will offer $8,000 signing bonuses to attract new drivers, the Howard County schools superintendent said Thursday.

In preparation for the Maryland Cycling Classic, the following roads are expected to close beginning Friday.

Despite its ambitions to transform student transportation with top-of-the-line technology and better pay for bus drivers, Zum seems to be suffering from the same labor shortage that’s hampered school districts across the U.S.

The superintendent of schools has pledged a forensic audit to ensure transportation problems will never happen again.

How many Howard County students have been affected by late and no-show buses? Is it school officials’ fault, or the contractors’? Here’s what we know.

Zūm, a California-based school bus contractor that just took over about half of the district's routes, said it could not cover 20 routes for the rest of the week. And parents have reported widespread problems with buses arriving nearly an hour late or not at all.

Baltimore City residents who own a Kia or Hyundai vehicle can pick up a free steering wheel lock on Tuesday at Greater Paradise Christian Center as part of an ongoing response to the rise in thefts of Kia and Hyundai cars.

So many school buses showed up late, or didn’t show up at all, that Howard County schools Superintendent Michael Martirano apologized to families in an email.

Zūm, a Silicon Valley-based company, is taking over half of the Howard County school district’s routes and hopes to transform student transportation in Maryland.