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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by brianzelip on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:16AM (#19552565)
You’re wrong about the Baltimore light rail not reaching Penn Station. See the Camden Yards - Penn Station light rail line, it runs a few times/hour. https://www.mta.maryland.gov/schedule
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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by chungleong on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @08:46AM (#19553434)
Half a mile walk is not what I'd calling reaching. You can't even see Penn from the light-rail stop.
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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by brianzelip on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @09:44AM (#19553953)
Sounds like you're referring to the University of Baltimore/MICA light rail stop[0], where you have to get off if heading south or heading north but not on the Penn line, to catch the 'Penn Station - Camden Yards' line. I mean, it's in the name of the light rail line...it lets you off right at the station[1].

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+Baltimore+-+...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Penn+Station/@39.3071436,-...

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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by chungleong on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:58PM (#19557988)
Oh, my bad. I don't know how I managed to live a year in the city and not know about the second line. I've only ridden the BWI/Hunt Valley trains.
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Re:Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other t... by brianzelip on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:19AM (#19563061)
The real criticism of the light rail is that there's really _only_ one line, north to south. And the (part subway) metro train serves a similar route, NW to east side of downtown.[0]

99% of all the light rail "lines" ride the same track. The Penn-Camden "line" veers off the main tracks right at that Mt Royal stop (MICA/UB), and only goes to Penn, then back to the main line at Mt Royal, then headed to Camden Yards. It's probably the least common "line" to see.

[0] http://www.urbanrail.net/am/balt/baltimore.htm

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