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. Sponsored by Del. Brooke Lierman and Sen. Cory McCray, the bill would require the state to allocate enough funds to the Maryland Transit Administration to cover long-deferred repair and maintenance issues. A similar bill passed in the state House last year but ran out of time in the Senate. “The state must maintain its assets and keep up its promise of providing reliable and safe transit to our essential workers and any Marylander who wants it or needs it,” Lierman said in a press release. “It’s clear from peoples’ experience and riders’ experiences, and data on breakdowns that the MTA experiences that the MTA system has been underinvested for years and is suffering for that,” said Eric Norton, policy director for the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, which is pushing the bill. ....