Advocates for the revival of a scuttled Baltimore-area subway line said on Wednesday they welcome efforts by Maryland’s U.S. senators to help get the project back on track.
But they said their enthusiasm is tempered by the sober reality that many pieces would need to fall into place for the resurrection of the Red Line project, which was canceled by Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) in 2015, to occur.
This week Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D) and Ben Cardin (D) were able to add a provision to the infrastructure legislation being debated in Congress “that would ensure consideration of projects previously in the [federal transportation funding] program, such as the Red Line,” the lawmakers said.
Without such a provision, the project would be forced to endure a much longer wait for federal funding should a future governor seek to revive it.
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