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Resolved, That copies of this Resolution be sent to the President
of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and all the
members of Congress from Maryland and to the Student Associa-
tion for Freedom of Prisoners-of-War, P. O. Box 166, Olney, Mary-
land 20832 and to the Maryland League of Families of American
Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, 209 E. 6th Street, Fred-
erick, Maryland 21701.

Approved May 6, 1971.

No. 6
(Senate Joint Resolution 18)

Senate Joint Resolution to request that the Governor direct the
Secretary of the Department of Transportation to consider the
feasibility of transportation service from Friendship Airport to
the Metroliner of the Penn Central Transportation Company and
access roads into the area.

Whereas, Congress passed and the President of the United States
has signed a bill to provide Federal funds for use in stimulating the
development of improved access roads to airports; and

Whereas, the population in the corridor between Baltimore and
Washington will increase one and one-half times faster in the next
decade than the population in any other area of the "megalopolis"
between Boston, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia; and

Whereas, the mass transit systems being developed by the
Baltimore and Washington areas are vitally important to the develop-
ment of the corridor between the two cities and vital to the economic
growth of the vicinity around Friendship Airport both for access
to the airport and to the industrial complexes near the airport,
including the new General Electric plant, the National Security
Agency, Westinghouse and the University of Maryland Baltimore
County Campus; and

Whereas, the groups, plants and industries around the Friendship
Airport have problems with proper access roads connecting with
roads and bus transportation coming from Montgomery and Prince
George's County, as well as Baltimore City and Anne Arundel
County; and

Whereas, the Metroliner of the Penn Central Transportation
Company passes within two miles of Friendship Airport and two
years ago the United States Department of Transportation was
directed to study a connection from Friendship Airport to the
Metroliner; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Gover-
nor direct the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to

obtain copies of a study made by the United States Department

of Transportation concerning the feasibility of a connection from
Friendship Airport to the Penn Central Transportation Company's
Metroliner, and make recommendations on the feasibility of the