Construction on the proposed Red Line connecting Western Baltimore County with the city is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2010, with the first riders in 2014 ? but the planning is very much in the discovery stage.
The Baltimore County Planning Board heard a presentation Thursday exploring light rail, bus and subway alternatives from Ezio Ross, a consultant with the Woodlawn Community Education and Development Association, and Dan Pontious, regional policy director with the Baltimore-based Citizens Planning and Housing Association. Ross, who visited Denver?s mass-transit system, and Pontious, who went to Boston, are part of the Maryland Transit Authority?s effort to include citizen and stakeholder groups in planning a project that likely will cost between $700 million and $2 billion.
