Baltimore bus terminals

Baltimore Travel Plaza
Baltimore Travel Plaza
MTA Bus station
General information
Location	5625 O'Donnell Street Cutoff; Baltimore, Maryland 21224
Owned by	Maryland Transit Administration
Line(s)	31
History
Closed	25 January 2011

Greyhound Terminal
Greyhound Terminal
MTA Bus station
General information
Location	2110 Haines Street; Baltimore, Maryland 21230; United States of America
Bus routes	2
Bus operators	Greyhound Lines; Peter Pan Bus Lines; BayRunner Shuttle; MTA Maryland bus service; UMBC Transit;
Connections	27; UMBC Transit: Downtown Route
Construction
Structure type	at-grade
Parking	yes
Accessible	Yes

The city of Baltimore, Maryland has had a succession of several terminals for interstate bus travel.

The main terminal for Greyhound, built in 2016, is located at 2110 Haines Street just off Russell Street south of Downtown Baltimore.[1]

This location was chosen following community opposition to construction at a site near Penn Station. Then-mayor Martin O'Malley, who had originally wanted the Penn Station site because of its central location to public transportation in the city, bowed to this pressure.[2]

Following the opening of the current location in August 2016,[3] local and state politicians, including O'Malley, then-governor Robert Ehrlich, and Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele scrambled to provide better public transportation to the new site. As a result, the Maryland Transit Administration increased service on MTA Maryland bus route 27, the closest bus line to the new location, and rerouted the line into the terminal.

Baltimore Travel Plaza

The Baltimore Travel Plaza was a bus terminal located at 5625 O'Donnell Street off I-95 in southeast Baltimore. Several bus companies used this location, including Greyhound and Chinatown bus lines. On January 25, 2011, the Baltimore Travel Plaza ceased operations, with Greyhound and Peter Pan shifting service to their new terminal on Haines St.[4]

Former bus stations

601 N. Howard Street

Prior to the construction of the Baltimore Travel Plaza, the main Greyhound station was located at 210 West Fayette Street, with the buses entering from Merion Street. This had been the Trailways terminal until the acquisition of the Continental Trailways company by Greyhound.

The former Greyhound terminal prior to that was at 601 North Howard Street at West Centre Street, with the buses entering from Howard St. and exiting from Centre St.

References

"Baltimore Downtown Maryland Bus Station | Greyhound". Greyhound Lines. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
"National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic: Maryland: No New Bus Terminal". The New York Times. December 27, 2001. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
"Baltimore Fishbowl | A Look at Baltimore's New Greyhound Station, Update on Two-Way Traffic Study, Former Sex Toy Warehouse Becomes New Home of Whitehall Mill -". Baltimore Fishbowl. 2016-09-26. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
Mirabella, Lorraine (January 19, 2011). "Baltimore Travel Plaza to close, Greyhound to shift service to South Balto. terminal". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved February 11, 2017.

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[1] "Baltimore Downtown Maryland Bus Station | Greyhound". Greyhound Lines. Retrieved February 11, 2017.

[2] "National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic: Maryland: No New Bus Terminal". The New York Times. December 27, 2001. Retrieved February 11, 2017.

[3] "Baltimore Fishbowl | A Look at Baltimore's New Greyhound Station, Update on Two-Way Traffic Study, Former Sex Toy Warehouse Becomes New Home of Whitehall Mill -". Baltimore Fishbowl. 2016-09-26. Retrieved 2018-06-01.

[4] Mirabella, Lorraine (January 19, 2011). "Baltimore Travel Plaza to close, Greyhound to shift service to South Balto. terminal". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved February 11, 2017.