Free Public Celebration: 

June 24th Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition Meeting to Celebrate Red Line Cancellation

The Harbor venue and its bathrooms are wheelchair accessible. Please email btec.moretransitequity@gmail.com for questions.

Click here for map and to RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/save-the-date-2023-commemoration-of-the-red-line-june-24th?clear_id=true&source=email-save-the-date-june-24th-in-the-harbor-with-btec.

For more information: btec.moretransitequity@gmail.com.

 Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition Event 

The 2023 Commemoration of the Red Line will be on June 24th

Saturday, June 24, 2023. 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Location Disclosed after RSVP•*, Baltimore, MD 21230

The Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition (BTEC) will hold a Downtown Walk at the Harbor to celebrate and mark the 8th anniversary of the cancellation of the Red Line Light Rail Project. There will be complementary music, buffet, non-alcoholic drinks, and alcoholic drinks. You must be aged 21 or older to drink alcoholic drinks in Maryland.

RSVPs are accepted until June 20, 2023. 

For more information and/or questions, contact btec.moretransitequity@gmail.com.

Please note that the Harbor venue and its bathrooms are wheelchair accessible. 

"The Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition is a resolute, community-led organization advocating for equitable, reliable transit that improves quality of life and the environment. Our anti-racist work was born out of Governor Hogan’s decision to cancel the Red Line project in 2015. That decision – a quintessential example of structural racism in the region – spurred many of the original Red Line planning committee members to action. Shortly after the governor canceled the project, these members gathered with others in the community to form our coalition. BTEC’s first major initiative was to submit a Title VI administrative complaint to the US Department of Transportation on the grounds that the decision violated the federal government’s anti-discrimination laws established by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. When that complaint was summarily dismissed by the Trump administration in 2016 (without comment), we continued to seek other avenues to develop equitable transit in the region."

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Sources:

Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition, Newsletter, June 3, 2023.

https://moretransitequity.com/.

WATCH AN ONLINE UPDATE OF RED LINE CANCELLATION ON FACEBOOK ON SATURDAY, JUNE 25TH 1-2 P.M.

Join the Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition (BTEC) as we mark the 7th Anniversary of the Cancellation of the Red Line 🙁 and share an update on what has happened to help complete the Red Line light rail project through establishing a Baltimore Regional Transportation Authority (BRTA) 😀. This is online this Saturday, June 25th from 1-2 p.m on https://www.facebook.com/moretransitequity/.

The Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition was formed from the Baltimore Red Line Title VI Initiative, a group of community economic development advocates in west Baltimore who helped plan the Red Line as a transportation and community development project. 

The Federal Transit Administration is in the process of conducting a Title VI investigation of the Red Line's 2015 legal cancellation as possibly discrimination against African-American and low income communities. Incidentally, 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.

After the 2015 cancellation, the Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition was formed to build a broad political coalition in Baltimore and beyond that will push to reinstate and ultimately construct the Red Line light rail.

Help us bring #MoreTransitEquity to Baltimore by contributing.

If you can’t contribute, we need your help as a volunteer, or to connect us to volunteers and donors.

https://www.moretransitequity.com/

btec.moretransitequity@gmail.com

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Sources: 

https://www.moretransitequity.com/

https://www.facebook.com/moretransitequity/