Amtrak

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West Baltimore neighbors want to slow Amtrak's plans

Melissa Gerr

We go On the Record to hear about Amtrak’s Frederick Douglass Tunnel project. The six billion dollar project will bore underneath several West Baltimore communities. Neighbors have questions ... and have engaged legal representation. We hear from a lawyer, a resident and an Amtrak engineer.

Amtrak staff spoke with residents about plans for the new Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program in September 2023. The rail company will spend $50 million for community mitigation in the form of direct investments and grants for projects within a quarter-miles radius of the tunnel alignment. (Daniel Zawodny/The Baltimore Banner)

The Baltimore Banner

Amtrak to begin demolishing properties for new West Baltimore tunnel in November

Daniel Zawodny

The passenger rail company will begin clearing the way for two emergency ventilation facilities in mid-November.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaking before President Joe Biden on January 30 in Baltimore, at the North Portal of the 160 year-old Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel. Both men praised plans for a 10-year, $6 billion-dollar federal-state infrastructure project that would build a new high-speed rail tunnel and restore the existing one. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Programs

B&P Tunnel: As a $6B replacement plan rolls out, some locals protest

Tom Hall

President Biden, Gov. Moore and Mayor Scott on Monday called the new Tunnel project a boon to regional transit and local jobs. Today, perspectives from a Banner reporter, and a local tunnel opponent.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks before President Joe Biden about infrastructure at the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel North Portal in Baltimore, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.

The Baltimore Banner

President Joe Biden marks start of train tunnel project in Baltimore

Callan Tansill-Suddath

The proposed Baltimore-Potomac Tunnel Replacement Program is slated to build a new tunnel, renovating a 150-year-old project operated by Amtrak, with two tubes that softens otherwise tight turns among other improvements.