It’s a shame because they really ought to have a better transit connection to BWI, MARC, & Amtrak.

If I remember correctly, Ehrlich didn’t do shit to support this, O’Malley tried to get the red line started, but that sentient sack of shit Hogan tanked it.

I really hope Moore gets Maryland to build more alternatives to driving.

No chance in hell the people of howard county allow a Baltimore metro to get anywhere near the city center

Per bay per hour is how all of their locations have been priced since pre pandemic at least, unless it’s a special event, couldn’t comment on the heating though.

The purple line in this proposal was never going to happen, it uses Amtraks northeast corridor tracks. In theory you could try to widen it with an extra 2 tracks to accommodate local light rail along those rights of way, but huge portions of that route are through tunnels and widening those would be a nightmare. But the way it was proposed they were just assuming Amtrak could logistically fit local trains on the existing infrastructure even though the tunnel past West Baltimore to Penn is already a bottlneck for the trains already on the line.

One thing that I've never heard a proposal for would be to expand the CSX right of way that runs north of Penn Station through Charles Village east to the northeast corridor exchange. Its currently dual tracked for freight, and CSX will never give up that right of way, but I think its feasible to build light rail and stations surrounding those tracks that would make a lot of useful connections. It would take no demolitions and just two bridges and could hook into the existing light rail with an interchange.

The yellow line though is basically part of the NS corridor proposal from MTA, and if Wes can manage to refund the red line, build the heavy rail variant of the NS route, and extend the existing metro line to its originally intended terminus, we would be in really good shape in a decade.

But at the same time, we also need vastly expanded bike infrastructure and a major overhaul of city zoning. Vastly reduce the number of zoning categories and rezone everywhere near fixed transit to the highest degree of transit oriented development. Building the transit is pointless if all it goes to is parking lots and stroads and none of the city can build up density in response.

The downtown does have something that all those other places don't have, the opportunity for density. Towson, Catonsville, etc were built for cars. They are seas of parking lot, endless stroads, and no amount of transit buildup with close the distance between places there. The only actual city in the Baltimore region is Baltimore, and the only place we can build actual dense walkable urbanism is in Baltimore.

> further gashes the already scarred landscape

Roads did that. Rail takes up a fraction of the space, most of the right of ways of at grade proposals for rail in the area are in existing road medians or along rights of way that were set aside decades ago with nothing there, and any proposal worth hearing today should be tunneling under downtown. The red line proposal was so good because it had a tunnel from the road to nowhere to Boston St that crossed the whole city with a half dozen stations. Likewise, the best of the NS MTA proposals is the heavy rail option because its the only one that commits to comprehensive tunneling in the downtown - the light rail proposals all put at grade tracks that get stuck in traffic like the existing line in the city proper.

One can dream.

Amazing… blue and yellow line go all the way to Texas…

If White Marsh doesn't want it just built it to right outside White Marsh, fuck em.

It is by the hour! There’s an automated ball spitter outer (technical term) so when you wave the head of your club in front of it, the ball rolls out.

I went last week and it was fun! Beer selection isn’t the best, but the cocktails are good.

They adopted the original 6 line subway plan in the 70s and that never happened.

Options similar to the yellow line are being planned - check out the MDOT North/South RTP Corridor study.

That green line expansion would be so sweet. The Baltimore MetroLink would be much more useful.

People in White Marsh would fight it hard, but it would be absolutely great.

Yeah i mean it's already been 20 years...

I no longer think that a comprehensive transportation plan needs to run through the center of the city. It implies that the center of the city has goods and services which cannot be had elsewhere, and it further gashes the already scarred landscape. Plans like this one are popular, as they follow a decades old idea that everyone wants or needs to travel in town. More tracks or paths need to be circulating outside the cit to take people from Towson to Catonsville or other outer areas which are now accessed by cars.

That would be amazing, but I’m not going to hold my breath.

"Adopted 2002"? So that yellow line is somewhat committed to eventually being built? Yay

Wait, like they only have Blonde not normal Guinness? Or they only only have Guinness Blonde?!?

Ewww that’s their beer? Welp, guess I’ll go to a real driving range with my own 6 pack

Yeah I was disappointed at the beer selection.

Went last Friday and people next to us had their heater on and we could feel it! I would think it would definitely be warm enough. We had a great time!

Went last night. Sufficiently warm. Not just the area but even the table top is heated. Had to take my jacket off. Great atmosphere. Fun times. They only have Guiness Blonde though. 1 star.

Sorry have a date. So excited, Saw her last show at the Otto Bar on TV earlier this year and has had me playing the old CDs since.

https://twitter.com/jennylynegan/status/1446257216978407429?lang=en

Are there BS rules or is this a joke?