Matter of Justice
January 26, 2017
The Daily Record
by Joe Nathanson
Daily Record 2017 01-26 Matter of Justice
“We thought that the Baltimore Red Line was dead. Of course, we are referring to the proposed 14-mile light rail line serving the core of the region from Woodlawn in the west to Bayview at its eastern terminus. This transit project, first proposed in 2002 and the subject of a decade of meetings and nearly $300 million of planning and preliminary engineering, was killed when Gov. Larry Hogan honored a campaign pledge, pulled funding for the project on June 25, 2015, and reallocated the funds to road and highway projects around the state.
Well, the Red Line has certainly not come back to life, but it has popped up in the news again. In December 2015, two formal complaints were filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. with the U.S. Department of Transportation. Those complaints were filed on behalf of Baltimore Regional Initiative Developing Genuine Equality and Earl Andrews, a resident of Baltimore, and a separate complaint on the part of another Baltimore resident, Samuel Jordan…”