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ARE YOU ONE OF THE 300 TO 400 PEOPLE who have to stand all the way from the District to Baltimore on MARC's 5:20 p.m. Penn Line train? If so, take heart: relief is coming in February.

The Sun is reporting that the Maryland Board of Public Works approved a plan this morning to add three new weekday trains to boost service on the Penn Line, which connects D.C.'s Union Station with Baltimore's Penn Station via Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The new trains will be scheduled to leave D.C. at 5:10 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. A third will depart from Baltimore at 10:30 p.m., allowing another way for D.C.-area residents to go to Baltimore after work and make it back in time to catch Metrorail's final trains for the evening.

Each new MARC train will have more than 500 seats. The expanded evening service is expected to start sometime around Feb. 12.

» "MARC to Add Three New Trips on Penn Line" [Sun]

Posted by Michael Grass at 2:01 PM on December 12, 2007
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