Overview
- ASCE’s Maryland section released its four-year review, grading 13 categories and confirming an unchanged overall C for statewide infrastructure.
- Roads fell to a C- and bridges to a B-, while energy and transit were rated D+, and ports and solid waste received B grades.
- About 40% of Maryland bridges are over 50 years old, a share projected to reach 57% by 2030, underscoring mounting rehabilitation needs.
- Report authors cited the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse as evidence of the need for resilience and system redundancy across the state.
- Recommendations call for stable revenue as gas-tax receipts decline and for prioritizing major projects such as Amtrak’s $6 billion Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program, with TBMs shipping in 2026, digging starting in 2027, and completion targeted in roughly a decade, plus upgrades to the Susquehanna River Bridge.