{"id":169831592,"date":"2010-05-20T15:26:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169831592"},"modified":"2010-05-20T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:26:32","slug":"ehrlich-would-scrap-red-line-purple-line-light-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169831592","title":{"rendered":"Ehrlich would scrap Red Line, Purple Line light rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael Dresser<\/p>\n<p>The Sun&#8217;s Julie Bykowicz reports from former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.&#8217;s small business round table in Montgomery County that the presumptive Republican challenger to Gov. Martin O&quot;Malley would scrap the incumbent&#8217;s proposals for light rail lines in Baltimore and the Washington suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Ehrlich told the group he go back to his plan for high-speed buses on the Purple Line in Montgomery and Prince George&#8217;s counties and be &quot;open to ideas&quot; about Baltimore&#8217;s Red Line. He said he would prefer to spend the money on the MARC commuter rail system and the Washington Metro &#8212; not on these new light rail lines.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/traffic\/2010\/05\/ehrlich_would_scrap_red_line_p.html\">https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/traffic\/2010\/05\/ehrlich_would_scrap_red_line_p.html<\/a>oldId.20100520152632568<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael Dresser The Sun&#8217;s Julie Bykowicz reports from former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.&#8217;s small business round table in Montgomery County that the presumptive Republican challenger to Gov. Martin O&quot;Malley would scrap the incumbent&#8217;s proposals for light rail lines in Baltimore and the Washington suburbs. Ehrlich told the group he go back to his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169831592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ehrlich would scrap Red Line, Purple Line light rail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169831592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169831592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169831592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169831592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169831592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169831592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169831592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}