Will the Red Line ever arrive?
The Baltimore Sun published a scathing editorial today on the necessity for improving mass transit in Baltimore, Maryland. While there is a plan in place for creating new transit lines, it took a battle to get the $17 million in funding to begin planning and designing the new Red line -- and now the Ehrlich administration is saying that construction can't begin until 2011.
To quote the Sun:
Baltimore needs better public transit. What the city has now is a bunch of half-built half-measures. It's become a chronic problem and is one of the prime reasons that Baltimore's jobless can't get work - and the rest of us are increasingly stuck in traffic.
So why won't the Ehrlich administration fund a Baltimore transit system? Because at the moment, they're too busy building a $1.7 billion Intercounty connector highway in Montgomery County.
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amg | 1:39 PM |
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