Posts tagged Brunswick Line
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MARC’s new study explores how to boost Brunswick Line service
Riders have long clamored for better service to Martinsburg, West Virginia, and Frederick, Maryland, but there are many barriers to expansion. Some form of this plan, though, may actually come to fruition. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Derailed
A bad derailment; The battle over Westbard; Transit for Tobytown; Office oversupply; Reconsidering DC’s ‘burbs; Keeping the space in AdMo; Sidwell friends or enemies?; Young and ready to build. Keep reading…
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Maryland officials won’t talk about more MARC trains
Maryland transportation officials have nothing to say about running more MARC trains between Union Station and Frederick County. That’s what state legislators and commuters learned at a recent public meeting in Germantown. Keep reading…
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The MARC’s Brunswick Line only goes one way in the AM and the other in the PM. It could do both.
Service on the MARC Brunswick Line only runs one way at a time: toward DC in the morning and away from DC in the afternoon and evening, on weekdays only. Some MARC riders think there is a simple way to make service between DC and Brunswick run both ways in the early and mid-afternoon. Keep reading…
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MARC fares may go up more than they have to
Candidate, now Governor, Larry Hogan said he opposed higher fees and taxes. Yet the Maryland Transit Administration is increasing MARC fares by more than the state law seems to require. This coincides with large cuts to tolls for drivers, raising more questions about the Hogan administration’s support for transportation that runs on rails. Keep reading…
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MARC will add a bicycle car to some weekend trains
MARC plans to allow bicycles on some weekend trains on the Penn Line before the end of the year, a MARC official said last week. Bicycle advocates have long asked MARC to allow passengers to bring ordinary bicycles aboard MARC trains. MARC allows only folding bicycles on regular passenger cars. However, MARC is now spending $359,000 to convert two single-level passenger… Keep reading…
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MARC backs away from all-day service on Brunswick Line
In 2007, the Maryland Transit Administration proposed adding a third track to the MARC Brunswick Line, which could make it possible to have all-day, two-way service. With a recent plan update proposing less third track, it’s unlikely that this will ever happen. The 2007 MARC Growth and Investment Plan proposed a third track from Georgetown Junction in Silver Spring,… Keep reading…
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MARC plan calls for new stations, more service
MARC commuter rail could eventually get new stations, more frequent service, and connections to Northern Virginia and Delaware. That’s what a draft update of the system’s Growth and Investment Plan calls for over the next 40 years. The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) envisions $467 million in capital improvements between 2013 and 2019 and another $1.8… Keep reading…
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CSX explains slower train speeds in heat or heavy rain
Why do trains on MARC’s Camden and Brunswick Lines sometimes run slowly? One reason is the weather: CSX, which owns the tracks, orders MARC trains to slow down for safety when it’s hot or very rainy. That’s what CSX Vice President for Passenger Operations Jay Westbrook told the MARC Riders Advisory Council last week. High temperatures can make the rails buckle. If a train goes over… Keep reading…
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MARC makes improvements, plans even more
MARC riders will see a new Halethorpe station on the Penn Line in June and the first of 54 new bi-level train cars by the end of the year. MTA also has a wish list of projects to fund with money from Maryland’s recently-passed gas tax increase. David Johnson, chief customer communications officer for the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), briefed the MARC Riders’… Keep reading…