The Baltimore Red Line Project, a proposed high-frequency, high-capacity, approximately 14-mile transit line for the Baltimore Region, will fill a major gap in east-west transit service between Woodlawn and Bayview, through downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

The Project was first identified as a priority for transit investment in Baltimore City and Baltimore County in the 2001 Maryland Comprehensive Transit Plan and the 2002 Baltimore Regional Rail Systems Plan. Subsequently, FTA issued the Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS for the Project in April 2003 and issued the Record of Decision (ROD) in February 2013. In 2015, MTA cancelled the project to focus on other statewide priorities and the ROD was rescinded in 2015.

Following the recission of the ROD, local and regional planning studies continued to study an east-west transit line. The 2020 Regional Transit Plan ranked the project corridor high for near-term transit investment. The Project was subject to more detailed exploration in the 2022 East-West Corridor Feasibility Study, which confirmed the public’s continued support for east-west transit. The State officially restarted the Project in June 2023.