Hogan, Officials Will Break Ground On Howard Street Tunnel Project On Monday

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan and proscription officials connected Monday volition interruption crushed for the Howard Street Tunnel Expansion Project, which volition enlarge the 126-year-old passageway to accommodate trains with double-stacked containers traveling to and from the Port of Baltimore.

The Maryland Port Administration said Friday that Hogan volition beryllium joined by CSX CEO Jim Foote, Federal Railroad Administration lawman head Amit Bose, Maryland Transportation Secretary Greg Slater, and Maryland Port Administration enforcement manager William P. Doyle astatine the 1 p.m. groundbreaking ceremony.

The task volition grow the CSX-owned passageway and 21 different locations to marque country for double-stacked obstruction cars, allowing concern astatine the larboard to turn by astir 160,000 containers, officials said Friday.

In June, Hogan announced the task received a “Finding of No Significant Impact” arsenic portion of a reappraisal nether the National Environmental Policy Act.

Double stacking besides volition supply a much cost-effective mode to transport freight by obstruction compared to trucks, reducing congestion on the I-95 corridor and delivering biology benefits with less emissions, the governor’s bureau said astatine the time.

The Port of Baltimore has seen a flurry of enactment successful 2021 with the completion of a dredging project to make a 2nd instrumentality berth and the arrival of 4 ample cranes that volition treble the instrumentality capableness erstwhile the passageway enlargement is complete.

President Joe Biden appeared astatine the larboard earlier this period to tout the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which includes $17 cardinal to modernize the nation’s ports. The president besides promoted national backing to the Howard Street Tunnel project.

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