Letter writer Benjamin Rosenberg was correct in calling the killer of the Red Line the "extraordinarily expensive and redundant downtown tunnel" ("Red Line was fatally flawed," June 29).
Not only was the Red Line expensive but it probably would have been a terrible mess, with disruptions, cost overruns, lawsuits and the years of delay customary for such projects.
And it would have been redundant, because we already have such a tunnel in place and in service. The Metro begins in East Baltimore and cuts under downtown. We could split it, perhaps around the State Office Building, and send a Metro branch along Edmondson Avenue out to Woodlawn.
Instead of weeping and wailing (even by the usually sensible "KAL") over a smashed colossus, let's pick up the usable pieces and mold them into a serviceable but sensible east-west transit line.
Edwin Hirschmann, Baltimore