I was going to ask a question about the Red Line.
The proposed mass transit line runs through the heart of the Edmondson Avenue neighborhoods I represent.
The hearing was on the Governor’s gas tax bill, and I was going to make the point that the Red Line could not be built unless we had additional revenue.
Then Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake testified that if the City does not receive more funding this session, it “will likely be forced to close as many as 15 bridges to traffic within the next two to three years.”
I raised my eyebrows.
The Mayor noticed.
“That was not a skeptical response,” I told her and the audience. “It was an ‘Oh, wow!’”
Baltimore would no longer rank 16th on the list of congested metropolitan areas.
We would be number one in a hurry.
The devil is in the details, as it is with most legislation, but a 21st Century transportation system is an investment we must make.
