BALTIMORE — For Amtrak passengers in Baltimore, the Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel is like a jump back to medieval times. The train slows, tunnel walls close in, and take on the appearance of a dungeon, illuminated by occasional lights and brie…
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/04/06-batlimore-tunnel
The linked map shows only the existing tunnel - and that’s all that’s available at the Overview Map link at the FRA page - http://bptunnel.com (hardly reassuring !). The recommendation for the new tunnel is Alternative 3B. Go here instead for the “B&P Tunnel December 2016 PowerPoint Presentation”:
http://bptunnel.com/images/PDFs/Dec2016-CommunityInfoMeetings/2016_12-8BPTCommunityMtgs.pdf
from: http://bptunnel.com/index.php/public-involvement/meeting-materials
(It’d be nice if someone else actually went and ‘source-checked’ these kind of things; mudchicken also knows how that goes . . . [sigh] ).
Fact checking is so ‘yesterday’ in today’s world. Besides, what are facts in the world of alternative facts.
As of this past Tues. 11 Apr 2017 the link on the BPTunnel webpage - “View Selected Alternative” - was fixed to go to a more comprehensive map which shows the Selected Alternative 3B and the existing tunnel. (Yes, I contacted them about it.) Here’s a link directly to it:
http://bptunnel.com/images/PDFs/ROD/ROD_Announcement_Map.pdf
And here’s the link to the main B&P Tunnel “Record Of Decision” page:
What do we do with the old tunnel?