I can vouch for Mt Washington! My wife and I moved here to start a family. We wanted somewhere with lots of space but we still wanted to be within city limits and close to public transit. It’s lovely here. We’re a ten minute walk from the light rail and Mt Washington village, which has a few bars/restaurants, but are surrounded by the woods. Lots of yard space for gardening and composting. Pretty quiet area, not much traffic, mostly people out walking. Plenty of room to start a family and decent neighbors. Highly recommend! One thing though is that people don’t like to leave Mt Washington so it can be hard to find homes for sale.

It surely would improve the cities and the neighborhoods it would pass through. There was decade plus long planning process that involved master planning with the neighborhoods affected including residential and commercial development. It’s heartbreaking to look at these plans and see what could have been. There is also plenty of research out there on the positive ROI of transit on cities, and I believe the plans for the Red Line included plenty of data and justification on this matter (Hogan’s people didn’t bother to read the plan). I think the Red Line was also based on one of the lines from the mid-20th century plan to build a metro transit network in Baltimore akin to Washington DC.