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The origins of the Metro SubwayLink lie in the Baltimore Area Mass Transportation Plan published in 1965, which envisioned six rapid transit lines radiating out from a central city loop. Planning studies from 1968 proposed a rail transit system 71 mi (114 km) long. [2]
The Baltimore Light RailLink (formerly Baltimore Light Rail, also known simply as the "Light Rail") is a light rail system serving Baltimore, Maryland, United States, and its northern and southern suburbs. It is operated by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA Maryland).
MARC Train is the commuter rail system serving the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area in the United States. The system is owned by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA Maryland), and serves Maryland, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. The system covers a total route length of 198.2 miles (319.0 km) along three rail lines. [1]
The Baltimore Light RailLink network consists of a main north-south line that serves 28 of the system's 33 stops; a spur in Baltimore city that connects a single stop (Penn Station) to the main line; and two branches at the south end of the line that serve two stops apiece. Because of the track arrangement, trains can enter the Penn Station ...
English: A geographic map showing the system proposed in the 2002 Baltimore Rail Plan.The system consists of 6 lines: Green Line (heavy rail): opened 1983 as Metro Subway; eastern extension in planning
The Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) [4] is a commuter rail system in the Washington–Baltimore area.MARC (reporting mark MARC) is administered by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) and operated under contract by Alstom and Amtrak on track owned by CSX Transportation (CSXT) and Amtrak.
The MTA operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area. There are 80 bus lines serving the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, along with rail services that include the Light Rail, Metro Subway, and MARC Train. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 52,922,000, or about 216,900 per weekday as of the third ...
The current Green Line study focuses only on the 4-mile section of the proposed line from Johns Hopkins Hospital to Morgan State University. [4] While an extension of the existing Metro SubwayLink might seem like the most logical mode for this line, the expense of building several miles of underground heavy rail rapid transit might make the project untenable.