Is there actually a plan for through running MARC to Virginia? I’ve seen lots of proposals from transit advocates, but I haven’t seen anything from the relevant bodies. MTA wasn’t at the table when VA cut a deal with CSX and Amtrak over the Long Bridge replacement, and I’m not sure they’ve don’t more than study the other infrastructure hurdles.

The goal is that once all the projects are done (gateway in NY, this tunnel, a couple bridge replacements, track improvements, etc) for the DC -> NYC trip to be under 2 hrs

I’d take Baltimore to Park then go up on Park

Edit: Charles is the best N/S route here if you don’t mind overshooting then cutting back

I’d take Baltimore to Park then go up on Park

Join a run club (there’s one every day of the week); go to charm city trivia, pick a spot, see if a random team will let you join (we’ve picked up several players like that).

Orient Express is solid, if you order off their sichuan menu. In MV, got a lot of opinions. I loved Allora, Ash bar is fun but over priced, always had soft spots for Cafe Fili and Indochine. Sammy’s Trattoria can be great. Can not be. Don’t sleep on Soups On. Baby on Fire is better than Dooby and Bun Shop fight me. Other people like Wet City and swear that I’m wrong about it. Minato and Aloha are there and will scratch an itch but there are absolutely better spots. Station North, Old Goucher, Remington, etc. are an easy bike ride and have a lot of really interesting spots.

Curious, why no marc from Baltimore to western MD on the old main line?

Allora

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/fooddrink/baltimore-new-years-eve-events-2023/

It’s not one of the neighborhoods that you need to avoid. There’s plenty of investment going on south and west, less in the neighborhood rn. I bike through it on Guilford from time to time and it’s fine?

Normalized to Baltimore. That stretch on Greenmount between North and 25th is a bit sketch but it’s filling in further west.

On a sketch scale, least sketch at the top, I’d say, idk, top half? Top third? It’s got some upside.

Both are technically correct. It’s the Greenmount West neighborhood, which is part of the station north arts and entertainment district

This only supports my point that the building wasn’t a shithole

Yeah you’re so full of shit, I know people who lived in that building, it was no different than any other mansion converted into apartments in MV up until the developer “accidentally” damaged it beyond repair

Unfortunately if you’ve got money CHAP has proven to be as spineless and toothless as they come.

Yeah you’d have to go into dc then all the way out. There’s a MTA bus between shady grove metro and the BWI marc stop if you wanted to cut out the need to transfer through DC. But I’m not sure you’d save that much time

They have full sized racks on the train but if they get full they turn you away, though the conductors have been saying there’s looking at putting the dedicated bike car on the Penn line train. Folding bikes are always allowed on the train. There’s also bike parking at Penn.

I don’t see the downside to someone sinking tens of millions of dollars into the city to fix up hundreds of vacants and then finding thousands of people who are willing to move into those neighborhoods. I don’t think it’ll happen, but it’d be good if it did.