This isn’t just about transportation—it’s about the senior trying to reach a pharmacy for much-needed prescriptions, the young scholar commuting to school for an education, and the single mother relying on the light rail to get to work and support her family. These are the lives impacted when we fail to invest in a reliable transit system. Baltimore deserves a system that serves its people with dignity and meets their everyday needs.”
MTA told the Transportation Alliance it has about a year to come up with the funding.
Without the money the light rail could stay in the mediocre shape it's already in.
"This is not frivolous and expansion this is trying to maintain the system previous generations built and we're letting run into the ground," said O'Malley.
The issues could extend beyond the light rail.
Without the ability to maintain its current systems Maryland could be at risk of losing federal funding for the Red Line.
A project that likely can't be completed without money from congress.
"We are at risk, the federal government when we apply for a grant to help pay for the Red Line will look at and will score our application based on what they perceive as our ability to maintain and run the system we currently have, and if it looks like we can't and it looks like we're choosing to invest elsewhere and we're choosing not to invest in the maintenance of that, that will hurt our application," said O'Malley. We have reached out to MDOT for a statement and will post it in this story when we receive one.
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MTA told the Transportation Alliance it has about a year to come up with the funding.
Without the money the light rail could stay in the mediocre shape it's already in.
"This is not frivolous and expansion this is trying to maintain the system previous generations built and we're letting run into the ground," said O'Malley.
The issues could extend beyond the light rail.
Without the ability to maintain its current systems Maryland could be at risk of losing federal funding for the Red Line.
A project that likely can't be completed without money from congress.
"We are at risk, the federal government when we apply for a grant to help pay for the Red Line will look at and will score our application based on what they perceive as our ability to maintain and run the system we currently have, and if it looks like we can't and it looks like we're choosing to invest elsewhere and we're choosing not to invest in the maintenance of that, that will hurt our application," said O'Malley. We have reached out to MDOT for a statement and will post it in this story when we receive one.
