ABSTRACT
American legacy cities grew up with good transportation. As Baltimore's transportation history shows, Baltimore figures prominently in transportation injustice. The collaborative looked at three topic areas: workforce, housing and transportation over the entire region with its 2.7 million residents. How much transportation and access are key to opportunity and how much past policies have exacerbated access problems has become a matter of federal policy. The regional conversation needs to be how to create an interconnected public transportation system. If successful in providing a more frequent and reliable service for more residents, BaltimoreLink could be an important step in the interconnected transportation system the Opportunity Collaborative had described, even though increased bus efficiency and additional rail service should be seen as complimentary and not as mutually exclusive. Baltimore knew it needed more rail transit than one metro and one light rail transit (LRT) line to speak of a system.
