PARALLEL PROJECTS IN THE RED LINE STUDY AREA
Investment and progress in these communities cannot and will not wait. MTA will be leading multiple parallel efforts in the corridor that will be coordinated with the Red Line project to begin to fulfill the long-delayed promises to the corridor’s communities:
- Immediate improvements to east-west bus service beginning this Fall with QuickLink40 service, providing a faster connection through skip-stop bus service between Westgate and Essex, MD.
- Short-term investments through MTA’s Fast Forward program including bus stop enhancements like bus shelters, real time information signs, and ADA improvements.
- Medium-term investments through the RAISE East-West Priority Corridor Project that is currently in the design phase. Improvements include transit priority treatments like dedicated bus lanes and pedestrian safety investments that improve transit access and community connectivity.
- The Maryland Transit Administration will also launch the Eastern Baltimore County Access Study to evaluate alignments for further expansions east into Baltimore County to connect to the job centers in eastern Baltimore County.
The Red Line project team will work in collaboration with projects being led by partner agencies, including:
- The Reconnecting Communities West Baltimore United planning study that seeks to reconnect historically Black communities that were divided due to the construction of the US40/Franklin-Mulberry Expressway in West Baltimore.
- The Frederick Douglass Tunnel project that will address the largest rail bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor, provide critical fire and life safety systems to this segment of rail tunnel through West Baltimore, and provide a new West Baltimore MARC station.
STAYING ENGAGED
We are committed to a robust, transparent community engagement process built around equitable opportunity to both access information and inform the project as it advances. We will be reaching out to communities early and often; we have a team in place to make sure that engagement is targeted and timed appropriately so that communities can directly impact the decisions that are most relevant to them.
While outreach and engagement will be ongoing throughout the project, there are two periods of focused public engagement planned in 2023 during July-August and October-November to align with project milestones and decision-making. Information will be posted to the website and social media as public engagement opportunities, including pop-up events and workshops, are scheduled. Outreach materials and surveys from in-person events will also be made available through the website and on social media.
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