Surprise! Gov. Hogan opens door to Red Line revival (but only slightly)

Two decades ago, the Maryland Department of Transportation unveiled plans to study a much-needed east-west transit link in Baltimore that could ultimately connect the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and U.S. Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn to the west with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center to the east. Not long after, the Red Line received the official greenlight from then-Gov. Martin O’Malley, the effort boosted by nearly $1 billion pledged by federal authorities to help build a light rail line. What happened next became Exhibit A for anyone making the case that Baltimore has been treated poorly by a Republican governor who hails from the D.C. suburbs: In 2015, Larry Hogan killed the project calling it a “boondoggle.”