Monday, April 3, 2017

A replacement for the B&P Tunnel is ready, but $4.52B of funding still needed

The Federal Railroad Administration has selected its preferred option for replacing the 144-year-old Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, but the project still needs money before it can break ground. The 1.4-mile B&P Tunnel is structurally deficient and creates a bottleneck between the West Baltimore MARC station and Penn Station by limiting the traveling speed of trains to 30 miles per hour. A new tunnel would replace that with 3.67 miles of new rail between Gwynns Falls Bridge and Penn Station that cuts…



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