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Route 3 (Baltimore)

Route 3
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Overview
System Maryland Transit Administration
Garage Bush
Kirk
Status active
Began service 1947
Predecessors No. 17 Streetcar
Bus Route T
Route
Locale Baltimore, Baltimore County
Communities served Towson
Ramblewood
Waverly
Charles Village
Mt. Vernon
Landmarks served Towson University
Towson Marketplace
Good Samaritan Hospital
Union Memorial Hospital
Johns Hopkins University
Penn Station
Washington Monument
Other routes 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30, 33, 35, 36, qb40, 44, qb46, qb47, qb48, 55, 58, 61, 64, 91, 120, 150, 160
Service
Level Daily
Frequency Every 15-20 minutes
Every 10 minutes (peak)
Weekend frequency Every 15-30 minutes
Operates 24 hours

Route 3 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in Baltimore and its suburbs. The line currently runs from the Inner Harbor with most trips operating to Cromwell Bridge Road Park and Ride (at exit 29 off the Baltimore Beltway) in Baynesville along the corridors of Loch Raven Boulevard and St. Paul Street, with selected trips to Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Towson, mostly via Joppa Road, and some trips making short turns at Loch Raven and Taylor. It is the successor to the 17 St. Paul Street streetcar line that ran from 1893 to 1938 and the Route T bus that ran from 1939 to 1947.

Streetcars on Route 17 provided service along St. Paul Street during the streetcar era of Baltimore. At this time, the Loch Raven Boulevard corridor was mostly undeveloped. Bus service along Loch Raven did not begin to operate until 1940, when Route T was introduced. This line operated along Loch Raven and 33rd Street as far north as Northwood.

The no. 3 designation was not used for any part of this route until 1947. The no. 3 designation was previously used in Baltimore transit history for a streetcar line that operated along Linden Avenue that would eventually be extended to Halethorpe along the Wilkens Avenue corridor. As the Linden Avenue section would later become a part of the no. 5 streetcar, bus route 3 would later serve Halethorpe.


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