Digging into Baltimore tunnel equity: Right issue, wrong target | STAFF COMMENTARY

For a half-century, West Baltimore’s “Highway to Nowhere” has stood as a testament to how big transportation projects can run over, literally and figuratively, disadvantaged communities. The demolition of hundreds of homes and businesses to create what turned out to be an isolated 1.4-mile-long stretch of sunken blacktop was an example of what happens when a predominantly Black, working-class community is seen by the powerful as no more than an obstacle to progress.

Recently, similar concerns...