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Route 1 (MTA Maryland)

Route 1
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Overview
System Maryland Transit Administration
Garage Bush
Status active
Began service 1947
Predecessors Nos. 0, 1, and 2 Streetcars
Route
Locale Baltimore
Communities served Coldspring Newtown
Mondawmin
Downtown Baltimore
Federal Hill
Landmarks served Druid Hill Park
Mondawmin Metro Subway Station
Inner Harbor
Other routes 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 38, qb40, 44, qb46, qb48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 61, 64, 91, 98, 120, 150, 160
Service
Level Daily
Frequency Every 30-35 minutes
Every 15-20 minutes (peak)
Weekend frequency Every 40-60 minutes
Operates 5:00 am to 1:00 am

Route 1 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in Baltimore. the line currently runs from Ft. McHenry to Sinai Hospital, with some trips making short turns at the Mondawmin Metro Subway Station. The bus route is the successor to the 1 Gilmor Street, 2 Carey Street, and 2 Fort Avenue streetcar lines.

The Citizens' Passenger Railway obtained a franchise from the city on June 25, 1868 to build a line from Druid Hill Park to Patterson Park, using Fayette Street west of downtown and roughly including what became the No. 1 and 2 streetcar lines. The People's Passenger Railway built the Druid Hill Avenue Line and a line to Fort McHenry via Fort Avenue; the two companies merged with several others in 1888 to form the Baltimore Traction Company.Cable cars began running on the Gilmor Street Line to downtown on May 23, 1891, and the Carey Street Line was electrified on May 15, 1893. Electricity was added to the Fort Avenue Line on July 23, 1893, and the Gilmor Street Line was converted from cable to electricity on March 3, 1895. (The Druid Hill Avenue and Patterson Park routes were combined as the No. 0 Line at about the same time.)

About 1894, the Carey Street and Fort Avenue cars were through-routed. The Baltimore Consolidated Railway was organized on June 18, 1897 as a merger of the Baltimore Traction Company with the City and Suburban Railway, which included the Guilford Avenue Elevated. Gilmor Street cars were sent north along the elevated on November 11, 1897. At that time, the routes were as follows:


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