Baltimore has no backup plan for Red Line, city transportation chief says

Baltimore City has no ready-to-go replacement plan after Gov. Larry Hogan pulled the emergency brake on the Red Line light rail project Thursday.

The city has no specific projects identified that could take the Red Line's place, said the director of its Department of Transportation,William Johnson, on Friday morning. All it has are concepts that aren't solid enough to discuss publicly.

Those concepts aren't all east-west lines like the Red Line, which would have run from Woodlawn to Bayview, with key stops at the Inner Harbor, Fells Point and Canton. So Johnson expects more traffic problems in the future. Estimates had said more than 54,000 people would ride the Red Line daily by 2035.

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