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Baltimore’s Red Line is not dead yet, but Trump win threatens mass transit

November 7, 2024
train tracks with power lines above them

Baltimore’s Red Line cleared another hurdle Tuesday with Democrat Angela Alsobrooks’ win in the U.S. Senate race against its longtime nemesis, former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who recently doubled down on his opposition to the revived transit project he scuttled. Then it immediately ran into a wall. Republican Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday means he will head back to the White House in January and usher in, many fear, an administration hostile to Democratic strongholds like Baltimore and bent on cutting funding to transit expansion.

 

Article Source: The Baltimore Banner

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