Buses pushed as transit solution

As state government slashes money for transportation improvements and prepares for a massive job and population boom, politicians and experts are pushing for more buses as a partial solution to the predicted traffic jams.

Buses are cheap, easy and don't take much time to set up - distinct advantages over more costly road and rail projects, they said.

As such, it's worthwhile to create a network of bus routes in the county that connect with major workplaces like Fort George G. Meade, the state's largest employer and the future home of 22,000 more jobs by 2015, Fred Fravel, a consultant with the KFH Group, said at a...