The long-awaited
Charm City Circulator hybrid buses, Baltimore's free downtown zero-emission transportation alternative, will make its inaugural run on Monday, Jan. 11 at 11 a.m.
The Circulator will initially operate along the Orange Route, an east to west journey running through the Pratt and Lombard streets corridor. This route takes riders in a loop past the B&O Railroad Museum, the University of Maryland Biopark, University Hospital, and University of Maryland professional schools, Camden Yards and the Convention Center, Inner Harbor, and Harbor East.
The buses will run in 10-minute intervals, 7 days a week. Text alerts will let you know when the next Charm City Circulator will arrive.
Both the Green Route, which will connect Johns Hopkins Hospital with Fells Point and Harbor East, and the Purple Route, connecting Federal Hill and the Cross Street Market area with Penn Station, will launch in the spring.
The Charm City Circulator, according the manufacturer, once fully launched will be the largest fleet in the country.
In advance of the new hybrid transportations release, Mayor Dixon announced recently the implementation of bike and bus lanes along Pratt and Lombard streets between Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and President Street. The specially-stripeed reserved lanes give priority to bicyclists and buses. Although drivers will be able to use the lanes to make right turns, violators driving within the reserved lanes will receive a $90 ticket and possible points on their drivers license
Source: Charm City Circulator
Writer: Walaika Haskins.