The Red Line’s future rests in the hands of a transit ‘true believer’

When the proposed Red Line transit project was canceled in 2015, Holly Arnold was angry. As the manager for the Maryland Transit Administration’s capital program at the time, it had been her job to plan out the money for the new east-west light rail. She loved the job. But then her boss’s boss canned the project. “Having to take the funding out of the program was one of the most depressing days of my career,” Arnold said in an interview Friday, just after the announcement by Gov. Wes Moore that the relaunched project would be a light rail, not a rapid bus.