The gas-tax increase in Maryland will be gradual, starting in July and ending three years later, but is expected to generate $1.2 billion in transportation improvements over the next six years.
The first phase of the spike will be 4 cents a gal, and when it is over Maryland’s gas tax will sit at 19.5 cents. The move will pay for weekend MARC service between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and officials recently released a list of nine other projects it will fund: