Michael Dresser
Getting There
This route might save you time if you're heading to Richmond on I-95
December 1, 2008
Avoiding the purgatory that is Interstate 95 on a holiday weekend is not all that difficult if you're heading from Baltimore to the Northeast. Pennsylvania offers a wide choice of routes to scoot to the west of Philadelphia and invade New Jersey.
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Speed camera worked, humans made mistakes
November 24, 2008
Montgomery County thought it had Coleen Hanna dead to rights. There she was, caught on camera Aug. 6 in Silver Spring, flagrantly violating the speed limit in her sporty BMW.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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