Recent comments in /f/baltimore

sllewgh t1_iyjh4w0 wrote

The bus system was a lot stronger. Light rail is good for serving high traffic routes, but a reliable and well developed bus network is what truly takes cars off the road. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the routes, there just aren't enough busses running them to keep the system speedy and reliable.

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sllewgh t1_iyisi7n wrote

Baltimore used to have one of the nation's best public transit systems. A half century of deliberate underfunding and having too few bus drivers has ruined it, but there's no reason we can't get back to where we once were by reversing that trend.

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sit_down_man t1_iyifmz2 wrote

If the next few/several years lead to a massive push for public transit infrastructure in the Baltimore metro, we could be among very good company on charts like this. Someone needs to convince Wes Moore that his ticket to stardom involves transforming central Maryland into a transit hub.

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