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Posted by Sand Box John on Sun May 11 10:41:03 2008 MARC Growth & Investment Plan (593 KB PDF file)This plan is quite ambitious. Add track on all three lines; Penn line (NEC); 4 tracks from Landover MD to beyond Newark DE (Cost of P&B tunnel replacement by Amtrak, rehab existing tunnel for use by MARC) Camden Line; 3 tracks Union Station to Camden Station Brunswick Line; 3 tracks Silver Spring to Point of Rock Lengthen 2nd track east of Point of Rock Shared project VRE; 2 new tracks across Potomac River 4 tracks Virginia Tower to beyond Alexandria. New stations and improvements on all three lines; Penn line (NEC); New Carrollton: New platform Seabrook: Parking Bowie Odenton: Parking BWI Halethorpe: Parking West Baltimore: Parking Upton: New station in existing P&B tunnel Baltimore Penn: Parking Madison Square: New Station Bayview: New station, Parking Martin State Airport: Parking Edgewood: Parking Aberdeen: Relocate station, Parking Perryville: Parking Elkton: New station Newark: New station Camden Line; Riverdale College Park Muirkirk: Parking Laruel Racetrack: Parking Savage: Parking Dorsey: Parking Camden: Lower level platform (Howard Street Tunnel) Mt. Royal: Reopen station Charles Village: New station Clifton Park: New station Bayview: New station Brunswick Line; Silver Spring Kensington: Parking Rockville: Parking Washington Grove Gaithersburg: Parking Metropolitan Grove: Parking Germantown: Parking Boyds: Parking Outer Montgomery: New Station Barnesville Dickerson Point of Rocks: New platform, Parking Brunswick: Parking Monocacy Frederick Other improvements; Penn line (NEC); Edgewood: New storage and maintenance facility Penn Station: New storage capacity New river crossings: Gunpower, Bush, Susquehanna Freight connection with CSX at Aberdeen Camden Line; Acquire River Side maintains facility from CSX Brunswick Line; Brunswick maintenance facility expansion All lines; Add cars to trains Increase peak service Increase off peak service Add night and weekend service Express and limited stop service Extend service on selected trains on all 3 line to Alexandria VA The Maryland Transit Administration has other long term plans involving station transfers at Madison Square and Martin State Airport with a northeast extension of the Baltimore Metro (848 KB PDF file) and at West Baltimore with the east west Red Line Corridor Study project John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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