The road to nowhere was paved with the dislocation of hundreds of families.

Many of those people who were forced out of their homes in the Franklin-Mulberry corridor moved a mile north to Edmondson Village – in the 41st District.

I knew about that before I went to my first meeting about the Red Line at Edmondson Senior High School. 

It was there that I first heard a constituent say she did not want to experience that again. 

She drove the point home for me. 

“We will sweat the details about how the Red Line would affect your neighborhood,” my legislative colleagues and I said at many neighborhood meetings. 

We introduced and passed a bill prohibiting the dislocation of any families along Edmondson Ave. 

There were no plans to do this.  We made sure of it. 

Governor Hogan pulled the plug on the Red Line five years ago. 

Cynthia Shaw, president of the Lyndhurst Community Association, recently told the Baltimore Sun that she had convinced her skeptical neighbors that the Red Line would connect them to the rest of the region, not take their homes. 

There will be a new administration in Annapolis in two years. 

We need to work with Mrs. Shaw and many others to plan for the redevelopment of the communities throughout Baltimore City and Baltimore County that would benefit from a 21st Century mass transit system.