New rail, bus, shuttle services are all on the table for west county
By RYAN JUSTIN FOX Staff Writer
By RYAN JUSTIN FOX Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
03/11/10
The infusion of high-paying government and contractor jobs headed to already-growing west county is promising to revive the area's reputation as a vital transit hub.
Paul W. Gillespie - The Capital
Once dubbed "the town that railroad build," Odenton and other west county neighborhoods are on the verge of same major upgrades to the train and bus services.
Upgrades to bus, shuttle and train systems are being examined as regional planners figure out how to alleviate the expected traffic nightmare of thousands of new workers - largely brought in by the expansion of Fort George G. Meade - flooding the region.
The impending growth of the Army post and the surrounding area due to the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure plan, or BRAC, will soon bring new bus and shuttle routes to the fort and the nearby...
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Need? - 2010-03-11 12:28:05
The MARC train can get you from DC to BWI and Odenton. Is there really a need for a metro line?
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