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The Maryland Transit Administration is reporting "major" disruptions on MARC tonight. There's nothing particularly surprising about that. What's new is that the agency isn't dismissing the problems as "minor" -- as it usually does.
Jeff Qunton at Inside Charm City has complied a long of what went wrong on the Penn and Brunswick Lines today. It isn't pretty -- mechanical failure, canceled trains, late trains.
Michael Dresser has been an editor, reporter and columnist with The Sun longer than Baltimore's had a subway. He's covered retailing, telecommunications, state politics and wine. Since 2004, he's been The Sun's transportation writer. He lives in Ellicott City with his wife and travel companion, Cindy.
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It's getting SO tiring to always have to allocate an additional hour for dinners, get-togethers, etc. because of expected MARC failures.
Still testing those locomotives?
Posted by: David | August 20, 2009 8:27 PM
Major problems also this morning with canceled trains and other delayed over 30 minutes.
I made the 5:20 express again yesterday, one of the few trains not delayed. Although it once again lost power three times and crawled from Odenton to BWI (there was no 5:10 express last night, so why did it crawl?). It was its usual 5 minutes late into BWI.
Why don't they just change the time table?
Posted by: Richard | August 21, 2009 8:36 AM
@Richard
The reasont he train crawled was that it was right behind the disabled train which was still making the rest of it's stops. I think the conductor made mention of it towards the begining of the trip.
I was actually fairly impressed since it ended up only being about a 10 min delay.
Posted by: Matt K | August 21, 2009 9:16 AM
What! Doesn't everyone know MARC's Motto?
"MARC isn't happy until all of their customers aren't happy!"
My happiness with MARC started when I decided that MARC wasn't going to be part of my commute!
Posted by: Roy S | August 21, 2009 11:54 AM
I was fortunate to be aiming for that 5:20 and was happy to not be standing on it.
Posted by: Nate | August 21, 2009 2:05 PM
When is MARC going to tell us what is going on with the 30 new locomotives that they have purchased? This is at the point of absurdity. I was late to work 4 out of 5 days this week. sigh...
Posted by: tiredofmarc | August 21, 2009 3:12 PM