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Link Rapid Transit construction bids face rejection amid $30 million project budget increase

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ROCHESTER — The Rochester City Council will be asked Monday to approve a construction contract for the city's planned rapid-transit system while rejecting another amid anticipated cost increases. The Link Bus Rapid Transit project's estimated budget has increased from $145 million to $175 million, partly due to a federal requirement to add up to $17 million in contingency funds to the project. The project was awarded nearly $85 million in federa…

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Red Line and other transit projects face tough odds this spring

By PAUL KIEFER ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers may place transit priorities like Baltimore’s Red Line on hold this spring in the face of bleak federal funding prospects and a search for savings in the state budget. Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson says that while leaders haven’t given up on those ambitions entirely, some long-awaited plans go dormant – even the Red Line, which would serve his Baltimore City district. “We’re still holding (…

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