A Look at the Community Efforts that Kept Pressure on Getting the Red Line Going Again

Despite former Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to shut down plans for the Red Line eight years ago, community efforts to create the east-west transit line persisted.

Those efforts paid off in mid-June when Gov. Wes Moore announced he was bringing the project back.

Samuel Jordan, president of the Baltimore Transit Equality Coalition, said before Hogan shut the project down, it had received approval in all places, including a Record of Decision. Now that the project is being revisited, Jordan doesn’t want the plans to change.

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