Come for the short Metro SubwayLink vid, stay for the Beach Boys Shut Down cover! It was barely shown in this, but the light-rail lines from Hunt Valley to BWI and Glen Burnie are....something. In Q1 2024, it had a weekday ridership per mile of just 436, and it doesn't take long to see why (worse than SacRT's 506 riders per mile but better than St Louis MetroLink's 409). The Red Line expansion is very much needed. The light-rail system was an alternative to a south line of the subway system to Glen Burnie and BWI, but Anne Arundel County fought against it, so it was eliminated from the subway plan in 1975. The light-rail uses ROW once used by interurban streetcar lines and the commuter rail routes of the Northern Central Railway, Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, and Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad. It was built quickly and inexpensively without federal funds so it could be built in time for Orioles Park's opening at Camden Yards, thus because of that, to save money, much of the system was built with only a single track. While this allowed the system to be constructed and opened quickly, it limited the system's flexibility, and so federal money was later acquired to double track most of the system. Shortly before Warren Road Station (heading north), the light rail splits from the former mainline at a wye (the original mainline disappears into trees and the remaining rail ends at the next road crossing). The light rail then follows the route of a former freight spur which was constructed in the 1970s to serve the industrial park the line now travels through. There were actually some spurs off this spur to various industries, some of which are still partially in-place and can be seen curving away from the right of way when riding. The freight line ended at McCormick Spice, which obviously wasn't ideal for light-rail, so beyond this point, the tracks follow the existing street grid (a single-track section with tight curves). Freight service actually lasted until around 2006 to Cockeysville, and 2012 to a couple of industries between North Avenue and Falls Road. Station placement and design were intended to be flexible and change over time, as stations could be built or closed at low cost. However, they were at times dictated by politics rather planning, as proposed stops in Ruxton, Riderwood, and Cross Keys were not built due to local opposition, while Mt. Royal and Timonium stations were built despite nearly being removed from the plan because the University of Baltimore and a local business group funded them. And then there's the location of Cold Spring Lane, which looks quite bad but there is a bus stop for two different routes when you exit onto Cold Spring Lane, there's a connection to the Jones Falls Trail, and students also use the station as if you walk east of the station, it serves Western High School and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. MTA tried to build "TOD" for this station with a 16-acre parcel with 284 units called "The Woodberry" but it ironically has poor connectivity to the station. So yeah, the light-rail goes through the least-densely populated parts for much of the journey, there was a lot of opposition to stations (which is also why they opted not to build one at Glen Burnie town center), and freight right of way limited the connectivity of the stations to the areas where they are located. Compare that with the HBLR in New Jersey which also mainly uses repurposed right-of-way but they go through packed neighborhoods, there's Citi Bike bikeshare stations at HBLR stops, has great connections to jitneys, ferries, buses, PATH, and NJT rail (the latter at Hoboken Terminal), and when in downtown Jersey City, it's still in its own right-of-way (except Essex Street where it's street running) and have priority signals (though Baltimore also has transit priority signals between Camden and Mount Royal, implemented in 2007 and resulted in time savings of 25%). In Q1 2024, the HBLR had 2,964 weekday riders per mile, in a 17-mile system! Second place behind the Link system in Seattle with 3,461. Baltimore fun facts: DC has the iconic Washington Monument, but Baltimore is home to the *first* major monument dedicated to George Washington, located in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood. Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore in 1895, while Michael Phelps was born there in 1985! Baltimore is home to the USS Constellation, the last Civil War vessel afloat. Built in 1854, the Constellation is the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy. In 1774, the first post office in the US was inaugurated in Baltimore, and ten years later in 1884, Baltimore made history again by establishing the first telegraph line in the country, connecting to Washington DC. Composer Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner while witnessing the flag flying over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, set to the tune of a British song called "To Anacreon in Heaven". To honor Fort McHenry's role, it has become national tradition that when a new flag is designed it first flies over Fort McHenry! Baltimore was the site of the first manned balloon launch in the US when Edward Warren, a 13-year-old, flew in the balloon, which had been provided by Peter Carnes, a tavern keeper and lawyer, in a wicker “chariot.” Carnes had wanted to be the one to ride in the basket, however, he was too heavy to do so. Warren’s balloon flight began a balloon craze that swept the country from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Baltimore is called "Charm City" because of a 1975 meeting of advertisers who created the slogan to improve the city's image. The slogan was the brainchild of Baltimore's then-mayor, William Donald Schaefer, who asked the city's advertising executives to come up with a new way to promote the city. The slogan refers to Baltimore's history, hidden charm, architecture, pop culture icons, and traditions. The commuter Camden Line is interesting in that it's one of the US's oldest rail routes still in operation as the B&O began running commuter service from Baltimore to Ellicott City (Ellicott City station closed but is the oldest remaining passenger railway station in the US) over part of the trackage in May 1830! The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States! Not to mention the B&O's Washington Branch Railway, now along the Camden Line, was the first railroad to serve DC!
"We didn't film the streetcar" "(yes we did, Miles)" ah yes, I love when Future Miles gaslights Past Miles 💀. The jazz you mentioned is because of a radio station that their transit administration set up, WTTZ-LP 93.5 FM, which plays smooth jazz with transit and traffic information sprinkled in there. The artwork at State Center station is called "Venter" by Baltimore artist Paul Daniel, he didn't say what it's supposed to represent, but he was paid 39,000 dollars for it in 1983. You didn't get to see it because of the parking garage in the way at Owings Mills, but they did build walkable TOD there, with dense housing, office space, hotel and conference center, a public library (with a community college in the same building), a shopping mall, and you can even walk to a Costco (or to a Wegmans north of the station)! It's worth mentioning regarding why Baltimore's subway is this way is that when Baltimore's subway system was originally envisioned in the 1960s, it was envisioned to be six metro lines radiating out from a central city loop and aimed to be a 71-mile system. Due to funding limitations, in 1971, this was trimmed to a 28-mile system in the Phase 1 plan. This Phase 1 plan involved two of the original six lines, a northwest line from Downtown Baltimore to Owings Mills and a south line to Glen Burnie and the airport. The northwest line was seen as the ideal starting point for construction of the system, because the northwest corridor was the most congested traffic corridor in the city. The northeast corridor in the city was also pretty congested, but the advantage that the northwest line had was that an existing mainline railroad corridor, the Western Maryland Railway. The Maryland government approved funding for it in 1972. However, citizens and leaders in Anne Arundel County fought against the south line because they feared crime would increase because of the subway. In response, the south line was removed from the plan, thus only the northwest line was built as a metro line. The system initially opened in 1983. In 1987, it was extended from Reisterstown Plaza to Owings Mills and was finally extended from Charles Center to Johns Hopkins Hospital in May 1995. The concept for the south line to Glen Burnie and the airport eventually became a light-rail system. Maryland has quite the unique state flag, I completely understand why they love it so much! Whether you like the Maryland flag or not, there's no denying that the Maryland flag is unique. While other states put their shield/coat of arms in the middle of the flag, in the case of Maryland...it makes up the WHOLE flag! It's the 17th-century heraldic banner of arms of Cecil, 2nd Baron Baltimore. The black and gold is Lord Baltimore's banner (from his father, George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore) and is also on the flag of Baltimore (though the Baltimore flag has the Battle Monument in the middle which commemorates the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812), while the red and white is called the Crossland banner and is from his grandmother. During the colonial period, only the gold and black Calvert arms were associated with Maryland During the Civil War, Marylanders who sided with the Confederacy affiliated with the Crossland banner while those who fought for the Union wore the Lord Baltimore banner. The flag in its present form was first flown in 1880 but wasn't officially adopted as the state flag until 1904.
The Baltimore subway was shuttered for 30 days in early 2018 to conduct an emergency rehabilitation project. We are about to see the same thing in Boston but on a somewhat bigger scale.
It’s most like PATH and WMATA Metrorail, though just one line. Its also the fastest - can reach over 70 mph. Planned in a similar era as the WMATA Metro and Miami’s as well with at least 5 lines planned - all but one were ditched.
@@MilesinTransit technically the last one was the CTA 2600, but those weren't designed in house. Their last proper transit car done by Budd was the UMTV for Baltimore and Miami
As someone who lives in Baltimore, you are definitely right that (1) the name change of the line to SubwayLink is stupid (happened around 2016-7) and (2) the Metro line is severely out-of-place for anyone who wants to meaningfully use it (except for Hopkins employees) and that may be due to the bus system
Just think how amazing of a transit town Baltimore would be if they had finished all of the originally 6 lines out from downtown, and built them in a logical way, with actual transfers.
@@db399 The city wouldn’t look like as much of an apocalypse had hit it if we’d built that system. It would have served to tether development of jobs and population in the city. We ran a close enough experiment when DC built theirs, and we canceled ours. It’s not like DC didn’t get hit by the crack epidemic in the 80s, too.
You have no idea how much I want to ride that! Tack on the light rail and you've got a fully-fledged video, even with the Waterfront Line seemingly in permanent jeopardy.
So weird seeing familiar spots online, I grew up near Owings Mills and would take 795 all the time driving. The area around the owings mills metro is trying to become TOD, and for as memey as it is, they've made lots of progress
Kudos to you boys for not getting yelled at on the Baltimore Metro. I live in the area, and it's just so weird how we have the 1 line Metro, the 1 line Light Rail, and soon to be coming (maybe?) one line Red Line!
Lived around bmore my whole life and I never got on the subway. I assumed it was gonna be in terrible condition, really surprised to see that it looks so nice
The stations are actually fantastic. Scary to be in to think about how much was spent on them basically just to build concrete walking corridors under the city, but like, really pretty.
I can't wait until the Red Line opens in 2020 and you get to ride that as well! Wait, it was cancelled and will be an intermodal system set to open at some unknown date? Fuck.
The annoyingly fun thing about the "car number" plate is that it's modeled on our (old-style) licence plates, which have a shield with the state flag in the middle. Even the rail transit makes an automobile reference.
I only road this line one time when I was in Baltimore. My impressions of the line were like yours, where are the riders? Unlike the El here in Philadelphia I assumed that it did not have good bus connections. In Philadelphia almost every station has a connecting bus route running to and from the El to get the passengers to either their work or home location.
Miami and Baltimore were the only cities using the Budd cars for their metros even after the Budd company went defunct. The Miami Metrorail Budd trains were retired last year.
Despite living here my entire life I've never actually used the subway. I feel like MD's whole theme of rail transit is that its like *so close* to greatness but just bad enough to be horribly limited. I swear if they do end up building the red line, and expanding MARC to Newark with more frequency across all 3 lines our network would immediately become so much more functional as a whole. It's a shame we're just out of range of WMATA the DC metro is so much better
I lived a few blocks from the State Center station for 5 years. Never rode it (I did take the MARC, Penn was 3 blocks from me the other way). I was going to try it until one of my employees told me she had to find another way to get to work since her metro station was shut down due to a scabies outbreak.
I rode the Baltimore Metro for a little bit. Penn-North reminds me of Jamaica Center Station in Queens. Being that they were both built at the same time is probably obvious. It's a damn shame that it wasn't expanded. And not many people even in Baltimore, don't know about it. Also Maryland is that kind of place that it's flag is on everywhere, even on the Old Bay seasoning. Texas takes it to eleven, though.!!😂😂
(Although it's true, I have no idea why I'm growing so much! Especially when I've been traveling so much and haven't been able to put out particularly good content - but there will be some awesome stuff coming soon!)
It's not overbuilt, it's built for the future
(That’ll never happen)
@@JoshDoesTravel idk about that. They're building new lines as we speak!
Come for the short Metro SubwayLink vid, stay for the Beach Boys Shut Down cover! It was barely shown in this, but the light-rail lines from Hunt Valley to BWI and Glen Burnie are....something. In Q1 2024, it had a weekday ridership per mile of just 436, and it doesn't take long to see why (worse than SacRT's 506 riders per mile but better than St Louis MetroLink's 409). The Red Line expansion is very much needed. The light-rail system was an alternative to a south line of the subway system to Glen Burnie and BWI, but Anne Arundel County fought against it, so it was eliminated from the subway plan in 1975. The light-rail uses ROW once used by interurban streetcar lines and the commuter rail routes of the Northern Central Railway, Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, and Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad. It was built quickly and inexpensively without federal funds so it could be built in time for Orioles Park's opening at Camden Yards, thus because of that, to save money, much of the system was built with only a single track. While this allowed the system to be constructed and opened quickly, it limited the system's flexibility, and so federal money was later acquired to double track most of the system. Shortly before Warren Road Station (heading north), the light rail splits from the former mainline at a wye (the original mainline disappears into trees and the remaining rail ends at the next road crossing). The light rail then follows the route of a former freight spur which was constructed in the 1970s to serve the industrial park the line now travels through. There were actually some spurs off this spur to various industries, some of which are still partially in-place and can be seen curving away from the right of way when riding. The freight line ended at McCormick Spice, which obviously wasn't ideal for light-rail, so beyond this point, the tracks follow the existing street grid (a single-track section with tight curves). Freight service actually lasted until around 2006 to Cockeysville, and 2012 to a couple of industries between North Avenue and Falls Road.
Station placement and design were intended to be flexible and change over time, as stations could be built or closed at low cost. However, they were at times dictated by politics rather planning, as proposed stops in Ruxton, Riderwood, and Cross Keys were not built due to local opposition, while Mt. Royal and Timonium stations were built despite nearly being removed from the plan because the University of Baltimore and a local business group funded them. And then there's the location of Cold Spring Lane, which looks quite bad but there is a bus stop for two different routes when you exit onto Cold Spring Lane, there's a connection to the Jones Falls Trail, and students also use the station as if you walk east of the station, it serves Western High School and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. MTA tried to build "TOD" for this station with a 16-acre parcel with 284 units called "The Woodberry" but it ironically has poor connectivity to the station. So yeah, the light-rail goes through the least-densely populated parts for much of the journey, there was a lot of opposition to stations (which is also why they opted not to build one at Glen Burnie town center), and freight right of way limited the connectivity of the stations to the areas where they are located. Compare that with the HBLR in New Jersey which also mainly uses repurposed right-of-way but they go through packed neighborhoods, there's Citi Bike bikeshare stations at HBLR stops, has great connections to jitneys, ferries, buses, PATH, and NJT rail (the latter at Hoboken Terminal), and when in downtown Jersey City, it's still in its own right-of-way (except Essex Street where it's street running) and have priority signals (though Baltimore also has transit priority signals between Camden and Mount Royal, implemented in 2007 and resulted in time savings of 25%). In Q1 2024, the HBLR had 2,964 weekday riders per mile, in a 17-mile system! Second place behind the Link system in Seattle with 3,461.
Baltimore fun facts: DC has the iconic Washington Monument, but Baltimore is home to the *first* major monument dedicated to George Washington, located in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood. Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore in 1895, while Michael Phelps was born there in 1985! Baltimore is home to the USS Constellation, the last Civil War vessel afloat. Built in 1854, the Constellation is the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy. In 1774, the first post office in the US was inaugurated in Baltimore, and ten years later in 1884, Baltimore made history again by establishing the first telegraph line in the country, connecting to Washington DC. Composer Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner while witnessing the flag flying over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, set to the tune of a British song called "To Anacreon in Heaven". To honor Fort McHenry's role, it has become national tradition that when a new flag is designed it first flies over Fort McHenry! Baltimore was the site of the first manned balloon launch in the US when Edward Warren, a 13-year-old, flew in the balloon, which had been provided by Peter Carnes, a tavern keeper and lawyer, in a wicker “chariot.” Carnes had wanted to be the one to ride in the basket, however, he was too heavy to do so. Warren’s balloon flight began a balloon craze that swept the country from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Baltimore is called "Charm City" because of a 1975 meeting of advertisers who created the slogan to improve the city's image. The slogan was the brainchild of Baltimore's then-mayor, William Donald Schaefer, who asked the city's advertising executives to come up with a new way to promote the city. The slogan refers to Baltimore's history, hidden charm, architecture, pop culture icons, and traditions. The commuter Camden Line is interesting in that it's one of the US's oldest rail routes still in operation as the B&O began running commuter service from Baltimore to Ellicott City (Ellicott City station closed but is the oldest remaining passenger railway station in the US) over part of the trackage in May 1830! The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States! Not to mention the B&O's Washington Branch Railway, now along the Camden Line, was the first railroad to serve DC!
"We didn't film the streetcar" "(yes we did, Miles)" ah yes, I love when Future Miles gaslights Past Miles 💀. The jazz you mentioned is because of a radio station that their transit administration set up, WTTZ-LP 93.5 FM, which plays smooth jazz with transit and traffic information sprinkled in there. The artwork at State Center station is called "Venter" by Baltimore artist Paul Daniel, he didn't say what it's supposed to represent, but he was paid 39,000 dollars for it in 1983. You didn't get to see it because of the parking garage in the way at Owings Mills, but they did build walkable TOD there, with dense housing, office space, hotel and conference center, a public library (with a community college in the same building), a shopping mall, and you can even walk to a Costco (or to a Wegmans north of the station)! It's worth mentioning regarding why Baltimore's subway is this way is that when Baltimore's subway system was originally envisioned in the 1960s, it was envisioned to be six metro lines radiating out from a central city loop and aimed to be a 71-mile system. Due to funding limitations, in 1971, this was trimmed to a 28-mile system in the Phase 1 plan. This Phase 1 plan involved two of the original six lines, a northwest line from Downtown Baltimore to Owings Mills and a south line to Glen Burnie and the airport. The northwest line was seen as the ideal starting point for construction of the system, because the northwest corridor was the most congested traffic corridor in the city. The northeast corridor in the city was also pretty congested, but the advantage that the northwest line had was that an existing mainline railroad corridor, the Western Maryland Railway. The Maryland government approved funding for it in 1972. However, citizens and leaders in Anne Arundel County fought against the south line because they feared crime would increase because of the subway. In response, the south line was removed from the plan, thus only the northwest line was built as a metro line. The system initially opened in 1983. In 1987, it was extended from Reisterstown Plaza to Owings Mills and was finally extended from Charles Center to Johns Hopkins Hospital in May 1995. The concept for the south line to Glen Burnie and the airport eventually became a light-rail system.
Maryland has quite the unique state flag, I completely understand why they love it so much! Whether you like the Maryland flag or not, there's no denying that the Maryland flag is unique. While other states put their shield/coat of arms in the middle of the flag, in the case of Maryland...it makes up the WHOLE flag! It's the 17th-century heraldic banner of arms of Cecil, 2nd Baron Baltimore. The black and gold is Lord Baltimore's banner (from his father, George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore) and is also on the flag of Baltimore (though the Baltimore flag has the Battle Monument in the middle which commemorates the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812), while the red and white is called the Crossland banner and is from his grandmother. During the colonial period, only the gold and black Calvert arms were associated with Maryland During the Civil War, Marylanders who sided with the Confederacy affiliated with the Crossland banner while those who fought for the Union wore the Lord Baltimore banner. The flag in its present form was first flown in 1880 but wasn't officially adopted as the state flag until 1904.
The Baltimore subway was shuttered for 30 days in early 2018 to conduct an emergency rehabilitation project. We are about to see the same thing in Boston but on a somewhat bigger scale.
It’s most like PATH and WMATA Metrorail, though just one line. Its also the fastest - can reach over 70 mph. Planned in a similar era as the WMATA Metro and Miami’s as well with at least 5 lines planned - all but one were ditched.
I will add, they're dated, but Baltimore's now got the last surviving Budd-designed subway cars in the US!
Oof, their last subway project was the Baltimore Metro?? Talk about going out with a whimper, not a bang...
@@MilesinTransit technically the last one was the CTA 2600, but those weren't designed in house. Their last proper transit car done by Budd was the UMTV for Baltimore and Miami
@@MilesinTransit The initial Baltimore subway car order was shared with Miami which opened around the same time
and a great railfan window/seat!!!
@@TwoFirstNamesCB The Budd UTV had two generations. The second generation was the Breda A650…
As someone who lives in Baltimore, you are definitely right that (1) the name change of the line to SubwayLink is stupid (happened around 2016-7) and (2) the Metro line is severely out-of-place for anyone who wants to meaningfully use it (except for Hopkins employees) and that may be due to the bus system
it's overbuilt because it was supposed to be an entire system and was built before the entire population fled
Just think how amazing of a transit town Baltimore would be if they had finished all of the originally 6 lines out from downtown, and built them in a logical way, with actual transfers.
@@TwoFirstNamesCB Or if the city didn't look like the apocalypse.
@@db399 The city wouldn’t look like as much of an apocalypse had hit it if we’d built that system. It would have served to tether development of jobs and population in the city.
We ran a close enough experiment when DC built theirs, and we canceled ours. It’s not like DC didn’t get hit by the crack epidemic in the 80s, too.
sounds suspiciously like Cleveland
Lol welp, now time for Cleveland’s expansive heavy rail system!
You have no idea how much I want to ride that! Tack on the light rail and you've got a fully-fledged video, even with the Waterfront Line seemingly in permanent jeopardy.
@@MilesinTransit A pity there's no direct Cleveland-Philly trains anymore. You could get 449 direct from Boston though!
It's a subway
So weird seeing familiar spots online, I grew up near Owings Mills and would take 795 all the time driving. The area around the owings mills metro is trying to become TOD, and for as memey as it is, they've made lots of progress
The alarm sound of the train coming is the sound that pedestrian rail crossings make here when the gate shuts and a train is coming
"All one line of it!" I literally laughed out loud. 😀
Need more trains with flags, imagine if the L had the Chicago flag on every car.
The Chicago flag is actually a good flag!
Kudos to you boys for not getting yelled at on the Baltimore Metro. I live in the area, and it's just so weird how we have the 1 line Metro, the 1 line Light Rail, and soon to be coming (maybe?) one line Red Line!
Lived around bmore my whole life and I never got on the subway. I assumed it was gonna be in terrible condition, really surprised to see that it looks so nice
The stations are actually fantastic. Scary to be in to think about how much was spent on them basically just to build concrete walking corridors under the city, but like, really pretty.
Fastest Metro SubwayLink Rider Alive.
I can't wait until the Red Line opens in 2020 and you get to ride that as well! Wait, it was cancelled and will be an intermodal system set to open at some unknown date? Fuck.
they're talking about BRT or LRT as the red line... ugh...
The annoyingly fun thing about the "car number" plate is that it's modeled on our (old-style) licence plates, which have a shield with the state flag in the middle. Even the rail transit makes an automobile reference.
I only road this line one time when I was in Baltimore. My impressions of the line were like yours, where are the riders? Unlike the El here in Philadelphia I assumed that it did not have good bus connections. In Philadelphia almost every station has a connecting bus route running to and from the El to get the passengers to either their work or home location.
Miami and Baltimore were the only cities using the Budd cars for their metros even after the Budd company went defunct. The Miami Metrorail Budd trains were retired last year.
Oh, I didn't realize the Miami ones are all gone now! I was there in early 2020 and they were out and about, but I never got the chance to ride one...
"Transit oriented parking lot" lol xD😅🙃
I will die on any hill that the Maryland State Flag is the best in the nation.
rip
The Arizona state flag would like a word with you.
@@Token_Nerd *New Mexico
Maryland flag is the best flag.
This is remarkably similar to Seattle's light rail -- one line, every station overbuilt...
Seattle's light rail is a LOT more successful than this, though!
@@MilesinTransit The should swap rapid transit technologies and then there will be balance.
@@losh330 hopefully they seperate ballard link extension from the rest of the system so it is a proper metro like we're advocating for
Metro SubwayLink is a ridiculously long name. Almost like they're trying to compensate for something. Like the lack of line.
Despite living here my entire life I've never actually used the subway. I feel like MD's whole theme of rail transit is that its like *so close* to greatness but just bad enough to be horribly limited. I swear if they do end up building the red line, and expanding MARC to Newark with more frequency across all 3 lines our network would immediately become so much more functional as a whole. It's a shame we're just out of range of WMATA the DC metro is so much better
My only problem with the MetroLink is that it doesn’t connect to MARC PENN or the Inner Harbor
I lived a few blocks from the State Center station for 5 years. Never rode it (I did take the MARC, Penn was 3 blocks from me the other way). I was going to try it until one of my employees told me she had to find another way to get to work since her metro station was shut down due to a scabies outbreak.
Passing under some dangerous areas of Baltimore.
lovin' the Exclusive Content™!
So crazy whenever a city builds only one subway line 🤔
The Baltimore subway system seems to be a cross between PATH and the LIRR.
ridership is now ab 5k entries per day in 2023
Is this the least-used heavy-rail line in America (measured by daily ridership per route mile)?
You can’t count every MTA logo as the state flag, lol!!
But there’s not much to do in the subway section with no Wi-Fi or cell service.
That is massively overbuilt!
i love all your videos
Thank you!
I rode the Baltimore Metro for a little bit. Penn-North reminds me of Jamaica Center Station in Queens. Being that they were both built at the same time is probably obvious. It's a damn shame that it wasn't expanded. And not many people even in Baltimore, don't know about it. Also Maryland is that kind of place that it's flag is on everywhere, even on the Old Bay seasoning. Texas takes it to eleven, though.!!😂😂
0:17 and there is the underlying theme of this video ;)
2:16 make sure to film the announcement!!!
2:38 backwards ding? what is this, Strawberry Fields Forever smh
3:27 we're creating a whole-ass cartoon up in here
3:40 that transition is 2006 PowerPoint-level quality. props
I'm a Marylander, I love our flag. But... maybe we have a problem.
I lived in Baltimore for 10 years never rode the subway lmao
0:31 What's your obsession with the Maryland flag? 🤔
Please fill me in as I’m not that familiar with Baltimore’s subway system.
Is this the light rail when it comes above ground?
The light rail is a different system entirely!
@@MilesinTransit
Thanks for your response to my original post.
it may be an old, fairly useless metro. but it's *our* old, fairly useless metro
Has Miles ridden the Baltimore light rail????
Yes, but it was before I started making videos! I gotta go back and do one!
I just spotted somebody in the picture that I know.
How do you already have almost 4,000 subscribers?
You say that like it's a bad thing! ;)
(Although it's true, I have no idea why I'm growing so much! Especially when I've been traveling so much and haven't been able to put out particularly good content - but there will be some awesome stuff coming soon!)
@@MilesinTransit I think it's your personality. Very geared up to modern TH-cam.
'80s interior? its expo express leftovers are undeniably hailing the 1960s..!
Just thought i should let you know its car 116
My hot take is the Maryland flag is mid, it only gets all its praise because so many state flags are garbage
Yeah, it's in the upper half of state flags - if it was a country flag, people would probably crap on it a lot more often.
Such an odd name for a system
The other Mta will be a lot more interesting
Maryland flag is best flag.
Counting flags when every car has one is juvenile. Moved on to another video.
I apologize that this TH-cam video about trains doesn't meet your high intellectual standards :)
do they know they are jerks ?
who
A reference to VAX/VMS! Aren't you, like, too young to have co-existed with it?
Silly.
The metro subway link sucks as a Maryland resident
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