Baltimore Grows

This week, the Greater Baltimore Committee and the Baltimore Sun both endorsed a Red Line Transit Project which is fiscally responsible and responsive to community concerns along the corridor.  The alignment, known as Alternative 4c, would be a Light Rail train beginning along I-70 near the Social Security Administration, tunnel under Cooks Lane, emerging on and following Edmondson Avenue and the old “Highway to Nowhere” to Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.  At MLK, the alignment would tunnel under downtown along Lombard Street, connecting directly to the Metro at Charles Center, then continue in tunnel under Fleet/Aliceanna Streets through Fells Point.  The Red Line would emerge at Boston and Aliceanna and travel in the median of Boston Street to Brewer’s Hill/Canton Crossing, then follow old railroad right-of-way to Greektown/Highlandtown at Eastern Avenue and then to the Bayview Campus where it would meet a new MARC Station.  The proposal is estimated at $1.3 billion and is projected to carry 42,000 riders per day.

The Maryland Transit Administration will hold a series of hearings on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement beginning on November 6th through November 14th.  Strong public support for this alternative is needed to propel the project into the engineering and construction phases. Click here to comment on the Red Line DEIS.

You can also get project updates, view pictures of the recent transit tours to Phoenix, LA, Portland and Seattle, and following along on Twitter by visiting the City’s Red Line website www.gobaltimoreredline.com