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The CSX railroad, the state of Maryland and others are poised to spend $466 million expanding the more than century-old Howard Street Tunnel under downtown Baltimore, fixing a bottleneck that has hampered growth at the Port of Baltimore and rail traffic along the East Coast.
Baltimore County may soon build its first new public park in more than six years on a swath of land within Tradepoint Atlantic, an industrial site once owned — and polluted — by the former Bethlehem Steel mill.
Now political momentum is building to raise taxes on the wealthy and support families and small businesses during the pandemic.
The Maryland Department of Transportation’s draft five-year budget provides only an average of $326 million per year for critical repair needs, while the agency’s own Capital Needs Inventory called for an average of $462 million per year, the Democratic officials said.