Yellow Line (Baltimore)

Yellow Line
Yellow Line
Overview
Status	Proposed
Locale	Baltimore, Maryland
Termini	Columbia Town Center (South); Hunt Valley, Maryland (North);
Service
Type	Bus rapid transit, light rail, or heavy rail
System	Maryland Transit Administration
Operator(s)	Maryland Transit Administration
Technical
Line length	42 mi (67.6 km)
Route map
	Legend
	Towson University
	/ Medical Center
	Blue Line
	to Glen Burnie
	All stations are accessible
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Last updated April 16, 2024

The Yellow Line is a mass transit line proposed by the Baltimore Regional Rail Plan in March 2002 for the Baltimore, Maryland area. It would begin at Columbia Town Center in Columbia, Maryland, and end in Hunt Valley, Maryland at Shawan Road.^[1]

Original vision

As originally envisioned by the plan, the Yellow Line would conjoin with the existing Baltimore Light RailLink at BWI Business District station, and remain connected until Camden Yards station, where the two lines would spur to create a loop around Downtown Baltimore. In this small loop, the lines would both serve the Inner Harbor, Charles Center, Mt. Vernon stations, and Pennsylvania Station. At Penn Station, the Yellow Line would again split towards the north going through the neighborhoods of Station North, Charles Village, Waverly, Govanstown, Belvedere Square, and Towson. The Yellow Line would again meet up with the existing light rail line at Lutherville station. The lines would again conjoin until the northern terminus of Hunt Valley. Another station in the Yellow Line system was proposed for Texas, Maryland.^[1]^[2]

Current status

The future for the Yellow Line proposal seems doubtful, as only two proposed rail lines were included in the "final" Baltimore Regional Rail System Plan: the Red Line and the Green Line.^[3] In the current Baltimore Regional Transit Map, yellow designates a branch from the existing Baltimore Light Rail line to the Cromwell Station in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The branches to Hunt Valley (north) and BWI Airport (south) are designated with the color blue.^[4]

In summer 2013, a representative of the privately funded TU Foundation expressed interest at a public meeting in the idea of a suggested partnership between the foundation and local companies to build a short piece of the line near Towson University. That small line, designated as the "Towson Trolley" was informally presented as only covering Towson-area destinations (including St. Joseph's Hospital, Towson University, downtown Towson and Lutherville Station, where it was pitched as terminating). Despite being presented as a short-line trolley, the plan as presented emphasized track compatibility in order to allow future expansion. As of 2014^[update], however, no public-record mention of the plan appears to have occurred for more than a year.

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References

1 2 Baltimore Region Rail System Plan Archived 2011-09-09 at the Wayback Machine . Advisory Committee Report, March 2002.
↑ Yohah Freemark (September 7, 2009). "Baltimore to advance Yellow Line project ahead of Metro extension?". The Transport Politic. Retrieved 2010-08-25
↑ Baltimore Regional Rail System Plan: Final Report. MTA Maryland. Retrieved 2010-08-26
↑ Baltimore Regional Transit Map. MTA Maryland. Retrieved 2010-08-26

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[Rail_Plan-1] 1 2 Baltimore Region Rail System Plan Archived 2011-09-09 at the Wayback Machine . Advisory Committee Report, March 2002.

[2] Yohah Freemark (September 7, 2009). "Baltimore to advance Yellow Line project ahead of Metro extension?". The Transport Politic. Retrieved 2010-08-25

[3] Baltimore Regional Rail System Plan: Final Report. MTA Maryland. Retrieved 2010-08-26

[4] Baltimore Regional Transit Map. MTA Maryland. Retrieved 2010-08-26

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