Light rail in howard county??

[cdmoore125]

Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey

You have Regional Rail for Rockville , Fredrick and other cities , the network needs to be expanded but Maryland is dragging its feet which is sad. Regional Rail is rather cheap to build and reuses existing tracks , it connects hub cities like Baltimore and DC to Fredrick , Martinsburg , BWI Airport , Jessup , etc. There are future lines in the pipeline , from Baltimore to Harrisburg,PA , La Plata , Westminster , Elkton. There are also 12 infill stations proposed on the Penn and Camden lines servicing various neighborhoods in Baltimore and smaller towns outside the city. As for the Red line , your city badly needs a East-West Rail line , most cities in the Northeast have this and it ties in the Transit system along with servicing off the beaten path neighborhoods..

A good East/West line would be fine; any East/West line at all without the proper numbers or interconnections is a failure.

[DarkWolf]

Originally Posted by cdmoore125

A good East/West line would be fine; any East/West line at all without the proper numbers or interconnections is a failure.

This would greatly benefit Baltimore....

[MidValleyDad]

Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey

You have Regional Rail for Rockville , Fredrick and other cities , the network needs to be expanded but Maryland is dragging its feet which is sad. Regional Rail is rather cheap to build and reuses existing tracks , it connects hub cities like Baltimore and DC to Fredrick , Martinsburg , BWI Airport , Jessup , etc. There are future lines in the pipeline , from Baltimore to Harrisburg,PA , La Plata , Westminster , Elkton. There are also 12 infill stations proposed on the Penn and Camden lines servicing various neighborhoods in Baltimore and smaller towns outside the city. As for the Red line , your city badly needs a East-West Rail line , most cities in the Northeast have this and it ties in the Transit system along with servicing off the beaten path neighborhoods..

If you have any pointers to official plans for expansion of the Regional Rail system to include any lines beyond the ones that exist now? Except for Elkton (which would just be an extension of the current Penn Line from Perryville) A line to Harrisburg would have been fairly easy before the old Pennsylvania RR Line was ripped up (Some of the Light Rail goes up that way now) Westminster might be doable on the Old Western Maryland (Now Maryland Midland) tracks. There used to be commuter trains on that line. But I don't know of any realistic plans to put commuter rail back on any of those routes. As it is the MARC Brunswick line has occasional problems because it shares tracks with CSX. CSX would really like to kick MARC off their tracks because of the conflicts with it's freight traffic. I wish there was commuter rail east from Frederick to Baltimore but I don't see that happening

[MidValleyDad]

Originally Posted by Nexis4Jersey

This would greatly benefit Baltimore....

That would be a very good system too bad there is no way it will be built in the current economic climate. If you (or anyone) has a pointer to the original plan that the current Baltimore Metro was supposed to be part of I would really like to see it.

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Originally Posted by MidValleyDad

That would be a very good system too bad there is no way it will be built in the current economic climate. If you (or anyone) has a pointer to the original plan that the current Baltimore Metro was supposed to be part of I would really like to see it.

[P47P47]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

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I worked for an electrical subcontractor on the first phase (Charles Center to Reisterstown Road Plaza) of the subway. The maps we had of the initial plan for the subway showed an additional inner-city loop that would have run (approximately) north from station 46, turning west toward station 26, then turning south toward station 5. Unfortunately, I can't find this configuration on line.

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Originally Posted by P47P47

I worked for an electrical subcontractor on the first phase (Charles Center to Reisterstown Road Plaza) of the subway. The maps we had of the initial plan for the subway showed an additional inner-city loop that would have run (approximately) north from station 46, turning west toward station 26, then turning south toward station 5. Unfortunately, I can't find this configuration on line.

That would've been great. Heck, all of it.