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Overall Transportation Infrastructure
Baltimore
throughout the city’s harbor.
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The BaltimoreLink bus system runs through
downtown, linking a series of transport hubs
and city destinations.
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The Baltimore Metro SubwayLink, known
locally as the Metro Subway, serves the
greater area of Baltimore. Most Metro stations
are served by a number of MTA bus routes.
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Baltimore is a top destination for Amtrak along
the Northeast Corridor, with the city’s Penn
Station being one of the busiest in the country.
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MARC commuter rail service connects the
city’s two main intercity rail stations, Camden
Station and Penn Station, with Washington,
DC’s Union Station, as well as stops in
between. The MARC consists of three lines;
the Brunswick, Camden, and Penn.
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A comprehensive and expanding system of
bicycle routes has been developed in the
city, with over 225 km created to date.
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The city sits on I-95, the main route between
New York/Philadelphia and Washington, DC.
It is the eastern terminus of I-70, which
extends towards Pittsburgh and beyond, and
the southern terminus of I-83 to Harrisburg,
PA. There are two smaller radial highways
– I-97 to Annapolis and I-795 to the
northwestern suburbs. In the downtown
core, I-895 serves as a bypass to I-95 and
adds an additional tunnel crossing under the
harbor. The entire city is encircled by I-695,
known as the Baltimore Beltway.
Smart and Sustainable Transport
In 2006, the Baltimore City Planning
Department created a Comprehensive
Master Plan organized around four themes
representative of life in Baltimore: Live, Earn,
Play, and Learn. The plan was designed to
respond to opportunities for growth in
Baltimore. One of the outcomes of this
initiative was the Baltimore Sustainability Plan
which, among other things, aims to improve
public transit services, make the city more
bicycle and pedestrian friendly, facilitate
shared-vehicle usage, measure and improve
the equity of transportation, and increase
transportation funding for sustainable modes
of travel.
Baltimore was the first city in the United
States to introduce e-bikes into their city’s
bikeshare system. The system currently offers
500 bicycles with 50 docking stations and
plans to expand.
The Charm City Circulator (CCC) is a fleet
of 30 Hybrid Electric free shuttles that travel
four routes in Baltimore that was also
implemented as a part of the City of
Baltimore’s initiative of a “cleaner,
greener Baltimore.”
Event Mode Transport
The stadium is located within walking distance
of the Inner Harbor and its nearby hotels.
There is a light rail stop adjacent to the
stadium, and most of the downtown bus lines
including the circulator system stop nearby.
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