BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Remington residents are pushing back against a Johns Hopkins University infrastructure project they say will rip up freshly paved streets, reduce parking and disrupt daily life for at least several months, as university officials say the work is necessary to support major campus expansion.
The Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved Hopkins’ plan to install underground duct banks in the neighborhood, despite opposition from several City Council members and more than 30 written public comments. A duct bank is an underground system of cables, designed to house and protect power lines.
Construction is set to begin in May and continue in phases through January along Howard Street, Wyman Park Parkway, 23rd Street and 29th Street.
The project will require excavation of streets that were repaved within the past month, work that university officials say is needed to provide power to the university’s Homewood campus and its under-construction Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI).
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