Union leaders say they want to ensure a public-private partnership meant to lower the costs of the proposed Purple Line doesn’t mean lower wages and benefits for future employees.

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Greater Baltimore Committee President Donald C. Fry apparently does not recognize that something has gone seriously wrong with Baltimore’s proposed Red Line plan over the nearly a half-century since its inception. In the Oct. 17 Daily Record, he recalled how the east-west transit line was "included in the proposed Baltimore regional rail rapid transit system that was published in the GBC's 1968 annual report."

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As Maryland Transit Administration officials work on developing specific plans for construction of Baltimore’s Red Line, details are emerging that underscore two important issues.

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When you feel like the bureaucracy isn’t listening, what do you do? One thing you do is you turn to your elected representatives.

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The MARC commuter train between Baltimore and Washington will run on Saturdays and Sundays starting in December, Gov. Martin O’Malley announced Wednesday. The announcement was part of a new package of transportation projects that will cost a combined $1.5 billion. ...

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The Maryland Department of Transportation says it will listen to concerns about Baltimore's proposed light rail Red Line, but that major changes to the project aren't coming.

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Four Baltimore lawmakers are taking a stand against the state’s planned light rail Red Line, the much-debated, $2.6 billion transit project that would stretch west to east across the city.

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Your editorial speculating that the Red Line is "falling out of favor" is, as Mark Twain once said upon reading his own obituary, greatly exaggerated

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With the awarding this week of $400 million for Purple Line construction, state leaders have made a clear statement about where their transportation priorities lie.

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Baltimore’s hope for the $2.6 billion Red Line light rail project may be on the verge of approval, but it faces a welter of potential problems — any one of which might create a derailment.

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