Maryland has a transportation funding gap. And the group created to bridge it is waiting.

There’s a hole in Maryland’s transportation system about as big as the gap between the remnants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. It’s a gap in state funding, but that gap existed before the cargo ship knocked the critical connector into the Patapsco River. And the group charged with assisting in filling that gap — the Transportation Revenue and Infrastructure Needs Commission, legislatively-mandated in 2023 — is on hiatus after legislative maneuvering in the last month of the this year’s session repealed the original commission, reconstituted the organization and provided it with a different charge than the original group’s.