Baltimore bus terminals
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Greyhound Terminal
The main terminal for GreyhoundGreyhound Lines
Greyhound Lines, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is an intercity common carrier of passengers by bus serving over 3,700 destinations in the United States, Canada and Mexico, operating under the well-known logo of a leaping greyhound. It was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA, in 1914 and...
is located at 2110 Haines Street just off Russell Street south of downtown Baltimore http://greyhound.com/scripts/en/TicketCenter/terminal.asp?city=190036&PrinterFriendly=true&BackPage=/scripts/en/TicketCenter/locations.asp?State=md. This location opened on June 24, 2004 near the intersection of I-95 and MD-295 http://home.mchsi.com/~blaidd/anime/mta.html. Being so new, this terminal is still shown on Google Maps
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and Wikimapia
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as being under construction http://wikimapia.org/2914778/Baltimore_Greyhound_Terminal.
This location was chosen following community opposition to construct a site for Greyhound near Penn Station. Then-mayor Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
Martin Joseph O'Malley is an American Democratic politician who is currently serving as the 61st Governor of Maryland. Previously, he served as the mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007. He is currently the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.-Early life, education and career:O'Malley...
, who had originally wanted this site because of its central location to public transportation in the city, bowed to this pressure http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E2DB1031F934A15751C1A9679C8B63&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fO%2fO%27Malley%2c%20Martin.
Following the opening of the current location, which relocated Greyhound from its former terminal near the center of the city, a location accessible to most of the city's public bus and rail lines, local and state politicians, including O'Malley (now Maryland's governor), then-governor Robert Ehrlich
Robert Ehrlich
Robert Leroy "Bob" Ehrlich, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, he became governor after defeating Democratic opponent Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a member of the Kennedy family, 51% to 48% in the 2002 elections...
, and Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele scrambled to provide better public transportation to the new site. As a result, the Maryland Transit Administration
Maryland Transit Administration
The Maryland Transit Administration is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation. It is better known as MTA Maryland to avoid confusion with other cities' transit agencies who share the initials MTA. The MTA operates a...
increased service on bus route 27, the closest bus line to the new location, and rerouted the line into the terminal. In 2005 and 2006, various proposals were made under the Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative
Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative
GBBI redirects here. For the broadband index, see Government Broadband Index The Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative was a sweeping overhaul planned by the Maryland Transit Administration under the administration of then-Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich and his transportation secretary Robert...
to modify service in the region and change this to another line, but none of these plans ever materialized.
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Baltimore Travel Plaza
Chinatown bus lines
Chinatown bus lines are discount intercity bus services that have been established in the Chinatown communities of the East Coast of the United States since 1998. Similar Chinese American-run bus services are cropping up on the West Coast...
. On January 25, 2011, the Baltimore Travel Plaza have closed operations with Greyhound/Peter Pan http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-01-19/business/bs-bz-bus-station-renovation-20110119_1_baltimore-travel-plaza-greyhound-lines-greyhound-passenger and have shifted primary service to the main Bus Terminal, located on Haines St.
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Map - http://www.mapquest.com/maps/5625+Odonnell+St+Baltimore+MD+21224-4630/
Former Bus Station
The old bus terminal, formerly Baltimore's main Greyhound stop, was located at 210 West Fayette Street, with the buses entering from Merion Street.39.29093°N 76.61863°W
This had been the Trailways terminal until the merger of the companies. The former Greyhound terminal prior to that was at 601 North Howard Street at West Center Street with the buses entering from Howard St. and exiting from Center St:
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