[RP TownTalk] MARC Cornerstone Plan

Thu Dec 5 17:57:59 UTC 2019

which reminds me of another selling point (your mileage may vary!) for the
MARC: you can eat and drink, including alcoholic beverages, on the train!!

(re baseball trains, there's this article which has a slightly different
take on it, talks about ongoing CSX-MARC tensions, with no mention of drunk
fan-passengers.)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-03-28-1996088011-story.html

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 12:43 PM Sarah Wayland <sarah.wayland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I used to ride the train every day to commute up to the Baltimore Medical
> Center. I loved that train ride!
>
> I remember asking the conductor why they didn't run trains for the Orioles
> games, and he said that they used to, but some people would get *really*
> drunk at the games and the rides home were a nightmare for those who
> weren't drunk. Eventually they couldn't find conductors willing to work the
> games, and so CSX canceled the service.
>
> -Sarah
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> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:54 AM Gmail <jennifer.matis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would use it all the time in the summer to get to Orioles games, but
>> the schedule makes it impossible.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2019, at 12:26 AM, Spiro Dimakas <spiro.dimakas11 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Average Daily ridership is pegged at 44 people. Get a survey together of
>> those residents who use MARC/Metro and find out what station they use and
>> for those that don’t use Riverdale why they don’t use it (Frequency,
>> Parking, Cost, etc)
>>
>> I would hate to see them cut frequency because the ridership is that low.
>>
>> Spiro
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2019, at 10:33 PM, Jonathan W. Ebbeler <
>> jebbeler at efusionconsulting.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just my two cents but several years back MTA was planning on scaling back
>> service altogether at the RP station.  It took dragging transit officials
>> before Council and reading them the riot act to get them to back off.  If
>> you push off advocacy to state representatives you have already tacitly
>> acquiesced the point. If local voices don’t demand something, there is no
>> reason for the state to advocate for the town.
>>
>> A great example of this is the bridge over the tracks to RP Station. This
>> was completely a local effort. One of our former state representatives
>> chaired the state Public Works Committee at the time but state money did
>> not fund its construction.  Regardless of support or lack thereof for the
>> bridge construction, because it was driven by local voices it became a
>> reality.
>>
>> Service, including continued service, will always depends on ridership
>> metrics. Unfortunately many RP residents end up buttressing the CP
>> ridership statistics due to the better, more frequent service at that
>> station.  Dwight is right - it’s the easiest way to commute into DC.
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2019, at 9:57 PM, Caitlin Harwood <caitlinharwood at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  I have actually reached out to our councilman Aaron Faulx about this.
>> He said it has to go to the State level and be brought up at a meeting in
>> which state reps are present. Hoping that happens soon. My low bar
>> suggestion is to have the 2 trains that currently pass through RP but don’t
>> stop actually stop there. (There’s one around 8:30 am and one around 5:30
>> pm coming back from DC.)
>> I’m personally willing to take signatures from town members in support of
>> it, but until it gets on the docket at the state level, there would be no
>> platform to show such signatures.
>>
>> Caitlin
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2019, at 5:46 PM, Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Get more of your friends, colleagues and neighbors to board the train at
>> RP!  Give 'em all the selling points: Inexpensive vis-a-vis Metro (even
>> moreso if you have federal commuting benefits through your employer), free
>> parking!, 10 minutes to Union Station!)
>> It's a numbers game.  While ridership has increased at our station, it's
>> increased up and down the line and we are still one of the low-ridership
>> stations.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:39 PM Lucy Aguirre <a.lucille.a at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anything we residents can do to increase weekday service at the
>>> RP station?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Lucy
>>> Queensbury Rd
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:06 PM Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Jonathan.  As the blogger says, doesn't seem to be anything new
>>>> in there. I believe O'Malley laid out similar goals when he first became
>>>> governor.  On our Camden line, one afternoon train from Union Station was
>>>> added (lv 3:30) but of course it doesn't stop at Riverdale Park Town Center
>>>> station.
>>>> (Meanwhile of course they also haven't kept up with promised annual
>>>> fare cost-of-living fare increases and it is still, by far, the Best Deal
>>>> in Town!)
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 3:24 PM Jonathan W. Ebbeler <
>>>> jebbeler at efusionconsulting.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> All
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In case anyone is interested, and since this impacts the community as
>>>>> a whole, MARC has released their new Cornerstone Plan.  It includes some
>>>>> ambitious goals like adding a third track, expanded weekday service and
>>>>> limited weekend service.  You can find a copy of it here:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/Transit%20Projects/Cornerstone/MCP_MARC.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a good blog about it here (in case you want to skip reading
>>>>> 68 pages) 😊 :
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://ggwash.org/view/74948/is-marc-train-rail-new-cornerstone-plan-a-step-backwards
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> JWE
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