Baltimore Red Line End-to-End Alignment Simulation

Take a virtual journey on the proposed Baltimore Red Line, a 14.1-mile light rail transit project for the Baltimore region.

[@randazzs]

Baltimore needs the Red Line!

[@LeroyBright]

With a new governor, hopefully, we'll get it back! We'll need it, PRONTO!

[@foofighter141]

So depressing this was cancelled. The amount of thought and design that went into this project far exceeds any of the city's current rail systems. Also the east side MARC stop is a must.

[@jamesanastasia3237]

Yeah it's a shame. I remember when Hogan pulling the support for it right after being elected!!!smh...There was alot of people not wanting the line running from west Baltimore to over to the Eastside of Baltimore..Sad!!!😕😕😕Remember reading comments in the newspaper when it was scrapped and it was definitely a racial overtones to it!!!If Baltimore is going to survive it will have to come together as one...

[@LeroyBright]

@@jamesanastasia3237 Not only racial overtones but NIMBY'S AS WELL! (Especially around Canton as well)

[@secretagentcat]

@@LeroyBright its ridiculous how nimbys have taken part in ruining this country. people hate on cities but dont understand the growth and commerce they bring. we need more housing too....

[@jamiepope6272]

This needs to come back and happen! We want and need this as a community.

[@stacycampbell1314]

Well, Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition is in the process of getting signatures for a ballot initiative in 2022. 🗳 Feel free to sign the petition. We're at The Jones falls Farmer's Market every Sunday. As well as Waverly Farmer's Market on Saturday's. Baltimore Museum of Industry Farmer's Market on Saturday's and Govans Market on Wednesday's. Local events and transit stops too. 10,000 signatures are needed by August 1, 2022. So far over 10,000 have been obtained. We are just getting extra in case some signatures are deemed invalid.

[@foofighter141]

We need to elect a governor this year that implements this exaxt plan again. A quarter of a billion dollars went to planning and studying this route, we don't need a new idea, we just need this built.

[@LeroyBright]

Next year, (2022) I am hoping this will happen, as Hogan is term-limited as per Maryland law.

[@Wkay04]

let's take it out of his hands all together. We need a regional transit authority.

[@jamesanastasia3237]

Hogan scrapped the redline in Baltimore, but kept the line from Montgomery county to DC!!!So you can guess who he's looking out for!!!

[@LeroyBright]

We know the answer to that question....

[@kb_100]

It's so sad this was cancelled and the money was spent on more suburban roads. I hope the project comes back to life soon. It was a great plan.

[@leekleek7899]

Your hope came back to life

[@Drfunk781]

Its sad that this didn't happen. Not only would it have brought jobs and revenue to the city but a sense of hope for the residents because most of the people who live in the city or around it feels very neglected. And what makes it even more worse Governor Hogan has a Purple Line approved in PG County. Smh

[@whynotbegreatjones1305]

Wow ... not looking forward to the construction traffic but I see the vision...

[@bmp456]

Can we cancel Larry Hogan as well?

[@leroybright9839]

In 1& 1/2 to 2 years, YES! (Hogan is Term-Limited as per Maryland Law)

[@stacycampbell1314]

It's that time. Make sure to VOTE

[@saffirechanning7286]

The plan for Baltimore City's redline sounded interesting. So WHY did the governor SCRAP the project?

[@saffirechanning7286]

I have a sister who lives in the Belair-Edison Community. I think that area of the city really could benefit from having access to some sort of rail system. The Metro system doesn't extend eastward beyond Johns Hopkins Hospital. I've always wondered why the Metro system never extended farther eastward.

[@andrewskigordon4941]

It's just simply a bunch of poeple not wanting it going somewhere and what ever they feel like is best for everyone, like Larry Hogan, he doesn't care about trains, he cut up bus lines and taped them back together, like that doesn't work at all

[@jamesanastasia3237]

I believe Hogan had a lot of pushback from people(mostly white folks)who live in areas like Fells Point who really didn't want the project!!!

[@LeroyBright]

@@jamesanastasia3237 Just like I posted before, NIMBYS are a major distraction, cancer, thorn in our sides, and Achilles heel to its progress! (Red Line)

[@samuelyoung6347]

Shame it never came true

[@povertyspec9651]

Where are the bicycle accommodations?

[@davidrussell6118]

I think the governor called this a boondoggle today

[@LeroyBright]

HE (Hogan) is the boondoggle!

[@cjs83172]

While more rail traffic in the Baltimore area is needed to compliment the new BaltimoreLink, which begins on June 18, 2017, the Red Line, as it was developed, was a good idea executed terribly. While I think a modified version can be used to serve the east side and connected to BWI and Penn Station using the four-tracked section from Penn Station to Martin State Airport with potential stops in East Baltimore, as well as at Bayview, as well as at Edison Hwy., Rossville, and Essex before ending at Martin State Airport, or even following MD-43/White Marsh Blvd. to the White Marsh Park & Ride from Martin State Airport by creating a double track near White Marsh Blvd. But the tunnels that were part of the conception on the west side and in the downtown area made it an unsafe project, particularly in light of the street collapses over the last three years that have taken place in downtown and the west side of Baltimore. In fact, one place they were going to build the Red Line, US-40 on the west side, is still feeling the effects of such a collapse in 2016. In fact, the very section of US-40 mentioned at about the 7:00 mark in this video suffered such a collapse last year (2016).

[@yoyobass100]

They should've made this into a BRT instead of scrapping the plan fully.

[@secretagentcat]

trams/subways > dumb roads

[@mbrntly11]

A lot of people will be uprooted I can amagine the cost to Baltimore Tax payers, Look at Boston, enormouse price Tag It cost City Dwellers, You have To earn at least $80,000 yearly To live There! Not that many Folks in Baltimore earn nowhere near that F That!

[@MrBlondie0159]

Need fix these streets first they are terrible