The Baltimore City region has extensive passenger rail offerings via Amtrak, MARC, a light rail and subway systems. These rail lines keep the region well-connected to Washington D.C. and the rest of the Northeast corridor—Philadelphia, New York and Boston. They also provide access to employment centers throughout the Baltimore region.

Amtrak's Northeast Corridor

• Provides easy access to trains operating several times daily between Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston
• The nation’s busiest passenger rail line, and 47 percent of all of Amtrak’s passenger traffic
• Experienced a 25% increase in passenger traffic in 2006
• Offers regional and high-speed express routes
• Amtrak travel times from Baltimore to:
  • Washington, D.C. - 35 minutes
  • Philadelphia - 1 hour
  • New York City - 2 hours, 15 minutes
  • Boston - 6 hours

Regional MARC Train

• The region’s commuter rail system with 39 trains serving the Baltimore-Washington area

• This street-level system provides service with 32 station stops from the airport to downtown Baltimore, Camden Yards, Penn Station (Amtrak), and employment centers in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties

Subway

• Operates on a 15.5-mile, 14 station system from the Owings Mills corporate and shopping complex in Baltimore County, through Downtown Baltimore to Johns Hopkins Hospital
• A new transit-oriented development project—Metro Centre at Owings Mills—is under construction around the existing Owings Mills Metro Station
• 8 subway bus lines to help connect commuters
  

Washington Metrorail

• The second largest rail transit system in the U.S.
• Operates 5 lines for a total system of 106.3 miles and 86 stations—of which 38 miles and 26 stations are in Maryland

Commuter Bus System

The Baltimore region also operates an extensive bus system. Many of the bus lines connect directly with the Light Rail, Subway and MARC train service, and are part of the entire public transit offerings in the Metro Area. In total, the Maryland Transit Authority (MTA) operates more than 50 local bus lines throughout Central Maryland via the following service:

• 22 commuter bus lines (spanning the entire Baltimore-Washington region)
• nearly 50 local bus lines throughout Central Maryland
• 4 express bus routes

The MTA's new Trip Planner is available here.

An MTA regional transportation interactive map is available here.