Route 61 (MTA Maryland)

Route 61
Overview
System	Maryland Transit Administration
Garage	Bush
Status	active
Began service	1977
Predecessors	Bus Route 6 (1959-1977) Bus Route 29 (1947-1959) No. 29 Streetcar (1908-1947) Lake Roland Elevated Railway (1892-1908)
Route
Locale	Baltimore City
Communities served	Homewood Charles Village Mt. Vernon
Landmarks served	Johns Hopkins University Penn Station
Other routes	1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, qb40, 44, qb46, qb47, qb48, 58, 60, 64, 91, 120, 150, 160
Service
Level	Weekdays only peak
Frequency	Every 30 minutes
Operates	5:45 am to 7:40 pm

Route 61 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in Baltimore. The line currently runs from the intersection of Roland Avenue and Lake Avenue in Roland Park south to the Inner Harbor via Roland Avenue, University Parkway, Charles Street (northbound trips) and St. Paul Street (southbound trips).

The bus route is the successor to the 24 Lakeside (Lake Roland) and 29 Boulevard (now University Parkway) streetcar lines.

Route 61 under this designation has served its route since 1977. But several other bus and streetcar lines using different designations previously served the same route.

One other bus route in Baltimore transit history used the no. 61 designation, a downtown area parking lot line that operated 1946 to 1949.

The Baltimore, Hampden and Lake Roland Railroad, which was consolidated into the Lake Roland Elevated Railway in April 1892 and bought by the City and Suburban Railway in January 1895, reached Lake Roland in 1893. Its original route used the Guilford Avenue Elevated north from downtown Baltimore, and continued along Guilford Avenue, North Avenue, Howard Street, 23rd Street, Hampden Avenue, 24th Street, Sisson Street, Keswick Road, 34th Street, Elm Avenue, 40th Street, Roland Avenue, and private right-of-way to the lake. In 1895, the portion between 23rd Street and 40th Street was abandoned; the southern half over the Elevated was soon through-routed with the Gilmor Street Line, while the northern half was connected to the City and Suburban's Huntingdon Line. This line ended at the car house at Upland Road in Roland Park, and a Lakeside Line shuttle - numbered 11 by 1923 - connected the car house to Lake Roland. It was renumbered 28 on October 17, 1924 and 28 probably on November 24, 1929. When the Roland Park Line (10) was replaced with trackless trolleys on April 13, 1940, the Lakeside Line was extended south on Roland Avenue to the water tower just south of University Parkway. It was truncated to Lake Avenue on June 22, 1947, and discontinued on January 29, 1950.

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