BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Baltimore this afternoon to announce funding and labor agreements for the project to replace the Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel, the 150-year-old route into Baltimore Penn Station that is a major bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor.
Biden is scheduled to speak about 2:45 p.m. EST, WMAR-TV reports.
Amtrak launched the contract process for the tunnel project last June [see “Amtrak begins process to award contracts …,” Trains News Wire, June 22, 2022]. The company and state of Maryland had announced a year earlier a plan to name the replacement tunnel — actually a series of four single-track bores— for Maryland-born abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass [see “Amtrak, Maryland announce new approach ….,” News Wire, June 21, 2022].
The tunnel project is expected to cost approximately $6 billion; the White House says the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law could contribute up to $4.7 billion of that total. Early work on the tunnel will begin this year, the White House says, with the project generating more than 20,000 jobs.
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