Missing your commute over the weekend?

December 23, 2007

There’s been a lot of talk about the pros and cons of BRAC on Maryland’s roadways lately.

While BRAC will recapture some Maryland workers who have been lost to jobs in Washington and Virginia, many commuters are hoping the state’s real BRAC gain could come in the form of speedier commutes — that is, if mass-transit projects result.

The number of workers commuting from the Baltimore region to Washington grew by 26 percent between 1990 and 2000, according to a recent story in the Baltimore Examiner. And Virginia gets about 116,000 Maryland workers every day (most of them from PG and MoCo, but about 13,000 come from Baltimore).

From the story:

More and more, Baltimore-area commuters are taking long commutes toward Washington’s suburbs in southern Maryland and Northern Virginia. But planners are hoping that growth tied to military bases near Baltimore and suburban Virginia will reverse some of those trends.

Some suggestions on the table: Anne Arundel County would like an extension of the Metro’s Green Line to BWI airport. Harford County has gotten funds for a new MARC station in Edgewood and has proposed a new transit center in Aberdeen.

Do you employ public transit in your daily commute, or is it too time-consuming or inefficient for you? Do you think Maryland needs to shape up its transit systems - and is BRAC its only chance to do it?

JACKIE SAUTER, Multimedia Editor

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Comments

4 Responses to “Missing your commute over the weekend?”

  1. Darrell on December 26th, 2007 12:18 pm

    Extending the green line to BWI is just plain stupid. It will provide mass transit service to areas already well served by MARC on the Penn and Camden lines. We don’t have enough transportation money in Maryland to build triplicate service in 0ne area, while most of the Baltimore Metro area has NO mass transit option at all.

  2. F. B. Olmsted on December 28th, 2007 3:07 pm

    How about rail mass transit for Charles and St. Mary’s Counties? It wouldn’t have to start from scratch. Rail lines built well over a hundred years ago can be used for Charles County. St. Mary’s County is said to own the right of way of the old Point Lookout Railroad.

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