Appropriate-Algae-82 OP t1_j1rw753 wrote on December 26, 2022 at 10:35 PM

Reply to comment by moderndukes in Where to live in DC to commute to Baltimore? by Appropriate-Algae-82

Thanks for your comment. The main problem is the transportation once I get to Penn Station. I've been told the buses are really unreliable and that biking wouldn't be an option. Do you disagree? If I didn't have to drive it that would make a big difference.

moderndukes t1_j1s9hdj wrote on December 27, 2022 at 12:17 AM

I don’t currently take the busses in Baltimore so I’m not an expert. When I would, they weren’t quite as reliable as WMATA, but it’s also a 10-15 minute bus ride on a major route so there’s only so it’s sort of the best case scenario route. I’d defer to others on this.

As far as biking - it’s around 3 miles with a 250ft incline, so I’d leave it up to you to decide if that’s doable. There’s a fully separated bike lane just a block over from Penn Station on Maryland Ave that goes all the way up to that area.

Appropriate-Algae-82 OP t1_j1sa5p5 wrote on December 27, 2022 at 12:22 AM

This is really helpful to know about the bike lane thank you. Are there blue bikes there? Or I'd need to bring my own on the train?

moderndukes t1_j1scdps wrote on December 27, 2022 at 12:40 AM

It’s one of the better maintained of the fully-separated bike lanes too. Bikemore has a GIS map with labels for all the bike lanes in the city - as you can see, the corridor you’d be biking has a bunch of separated or buffered bike lanes, arguably the best in the city.

Baltimore had something like Bluebike for a bit but the vendor had a huge maintenance backlog and the city just cancelled it. Now we have a hodgepodge of dockless bikes and scooters; I believe it’s Spin, Bird, and Superpedestrian at the moment. (DC’s Capital Bikeshare is a great system, btw - some healthcare plans and employers in DC will subsidize membership, along with transit like Metro and MARC.)

You can bring bikes on the train.