Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition

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On June 25, 2015, when Governor Larry Hogan cancelled the Red Line light rail project, he sent a clear message to Baltimore City and the broader region: if we want a prosperous and equitable city, we will have to stand up and fight for it. The Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition was formed out of the Baltimore Red Line Title VI Initiative, a group of community economic development advocates in West

Baltimore who contributed thousands of collective hours of time to plan the Red Line as a successful transportation and community development project. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits the disparate and adverse impacts on African-American and low income communities accompanying the Red Line’s cancellation. While the Federal Transit Administration’s Title VI investigation is ongoing, the Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition has been formed to build a broad political coalition in Baltimore City and beyond that will reinstate and ultimately construct the Red Line light rail. We are on the right side of history — and reinstating, funding, and constructing the Red Line in the near term is much more possible than it might seem. The Governor’s pattern of conduct related to transportation, and including the Red Line, makes it clear that the Red Line cancellation was more than a simple adjustment in the policy priorities of the state. If you can’t contribute, we need your help as a volunteer, or to connect us to volunteers and donors.

06/02/2026

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A couple of weeks ago, BTEC members Niesha McCoy and Rev. Laurel Mendes did an interview with the Baltimore Sun about th...
05/29/2026

A couple of weeks ago, BTEC members
Niesha McCoy and Rev. Laurel Mendes did an interview with the Baltimore Sun about the Red Line Light Rail.

“They’re telling communities like Baltimore City to just accept mediocre,” said Niesha McCoy, a member of the local activist group Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition. McCoy said she lived in West Baltimore for several years, recently moved to Towson, and relies on paratransit to get around.

Laurel Mendes, another member of the Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition who attended a Red Line open house this month, said the state’s willingness to possibly abandon the first local rail line serving East and West Baltimore was disappointing, even reminiscent of failures to deliver on the original Red Line over a decade ago.

LINK BELOW: https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/05/29/baltimore-red-line-rapid-bus/

05/17/2026

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05/17/2026

MD PPC Tri-Chair Linnell Fall () shares her thoughts on Redirect 250 (May 17, 2026) and why it's urgently important.

04/30/2026

Despite TWICE being elected to head Local 44, Baltimore sanitation worker Stancil McNair has been barred from entering the union hall without an appointment . . . relegated to assembling trash cans, while an insider assumes many of his duties.

Amid potential Baltimore DPW layoffs, members met Friday and cried foul, demanding answers from AFSCME Council 3 . . . including wanting to know what ever happened to the $1 million in members' money lost to a phishing scam in 2022?

At the meeting, union members voiced support for the man they elected who has been sidelined and fumed over the silence of the insider who refused to answer them.

“Honestly, the union is our biggest enemy right now,” Local 44 Executive Board Member Teresa Best said. https://tinyurl.com/8sa3u7fe

The Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition, in association with the Reconnecting Communities In West Baltimore Coalition, is...
03/24/2026

The Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition, in association with the Reconnecting Communities In West Baltimore Coalition, is excited to announce a series of community oriented peer listening sessions to discuss how harmful policy decisions have impacted communities in West Baltimore and how community members can be engaged to influence reinvestment in the West Baltimore community. Our first session is on Saturday, March 28th, from 10 am. to 2pm. at 429 N. Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, Suite 2N.

We would love to see you there.
Please register at this link.

bit.ly/BTEC-2026-Peer-Learning

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01/17/2026

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(BALTIMORE – January 17, 2026) – Upon hearing the news, it took at least a day to find some calm. My spirit was vexed indeed. I was thumbing through my con

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