New Maryland governor Larry Hogan will include some funding for the Purple Line and Baltimore’s Red Line in the state’s budget, though the fate of both projects remains unclear.

Gov. Hogan’s proposed budget includes funding for the Red and Purple lines but says the future of both projects is not yet decided. — Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) January 22, 2015

Both the $2.4 billion Purple Line, a proposed light rail line between Bethesda in Montgomery County and New Carrollton in Prince George’s County, and the $2.6 billion Red Line light rail, which would connect Woodlawn in Baltimore County and Bayview in Baltimore City, are ready to start construction this year.

The state would only have to provide a small portion of the total cost, roughly between $300 and $700 million for each line. Each project already has funding commitments from local jurisdictions and the federal government, while the Purple Line would also receive funding from a public-private partnership.

Until the formal budget release tomorrow, we won’t know how much funding Hogan has set aside for either project. He could provide enough money for each project to move ahead as they are, or request additional study or cost-cutting. That could imperil the federal government’s $1.8 billion commitment for both projects, which would be distributed to other projects in other states if Maryland doesn’t take the money, as well as the private funding.

Hogan, a Republican who beat Democrat and former lieutenant governor Anthony Brown in an upset election last fall, vowed in his campaign to reduce government spending to close the state’s budget shortfall. While he said he would not make a decision on either the Purple or Red lines before taking office, he previously expressed a preference for building roads over transit and focusing on the state’s rural areas.

Also included in the governor’s budget is $30 million for a new regional medical center in Prince George’s County, at Largo Town Center Metro. Hogan also proposed cutting in half a formula that provides additional funding to school systems with a high cost of education, called GCEI, which would specifically affect Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.

We’ll provide more details as they come.