Spurred by a trillion-dollar federal infrastructural measure, a group of Baltimore lawmakers is seeking approval for a bill to revive the Red Line, a rail project that Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) killed early in his tenure.
Their measure, House Bill 632, would require the Maryland Department of Transportation to move “promptly” to plan and seek federal approval for an east-west rail line on the alignment envisioned for the Red Line, between the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in East Baltimore and the Social Security Administration offices in Woodlawn, in Baltimore County.
It would also require the agency to plan and seek approval to extend MARC Penn Line service to the Bayview campus.
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