A proposal to extend the Baltimore Subway

Gerald Neily is a participant on the Envision Baltimore e-list (a Google group). Recently he started a blog, Baltimore Innerspace, to push the agenda for a broader envisioning of building a better Baltimore.

On Saturday, he posted an entry "PHOTO TOUR:PROPOSED METRO EXTENSION FROM HOPKINS HOSPITAL TO CANTON," with a map outlining a way to extend the Baltimore subway system (a system woefully underutilized in my opinion, but that's because it doesn't go very far--to build use, it needs to go more places...), as well as photos showing possible station locations.

Map by Gerald Neily, Baltimore Innerspace.

This is the kind of work that can be pushed forward in building the citizens-advocates agenda for regional transit, as I have been suggesting recently, through the idea of having an annual transit-mobility-advocates conference--our own DC-VA-MD version of Rail-volution, that could alternate years between the Baltimore and the Washington regions (and maybe eventually Richmond).

The Baltimore subway is 15.2 miles long, has 14 stations, and about 50,000 daily riders.

Map of Baltimore area light rail and subway copyright by Urban Rail Net.

Photo copyright by Bob Barrows, via Urban Rail Net.

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