CityLink Yellow (abbreviated YL) is a
bus route
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operated by the
Maryland Transit Administration
The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT). The MTA operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Washington†...
in
Baltimore
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and its suburbs. The line currently runs from the intersection of
York Road and
Northern Parkway to the
Riverview, with some trips making
short turn
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s at
Washington Boulevard and
Monroe Street. The line serves the corridors of
The Alameda,
Kirk Avenue,
Guilford Avenue, and Washington Boulevard.
History
The Route 36 designation has been used for the north end of this route since 1947 without Route 36 being one of the first bus routes in the Baltimore area not to have a streetcar origin. The only portion of the north end of this line to have been served by a streetcar was the section along
Guilford Avenue, where the
No. 1 Streetcar line ran from 1895 to 1947 as an elevated streetcar.
The south end was not a part of this route until it annexed the southern portion of
Route 11 in 2008. Route 11 served the Washington Boulevard corridor since 1959. Prior to that, the corridor had been served by the No. 27 streetcar (no relationship to the current
Bus Route 27) from 1905 to 1938. This was converted to the No. 27
electric trolley bus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...
, which operated from 1938 to 1957, which operated along with the No. 52 bus, which operated up to Harman Street. The nos. 27 and 52 buses were combined into a single route identified as Route 27, which was combined with Route 11 in 1959.
Combining 11 and 36
Since 1998, plans to split Route 11 in the downtown area, combine the former southern portion of Route 11 with Route 36, and leave the northern portion of Route 11 as a separate line have been proposed on multiple occasions.
The first was in 1998. The plan was to operate Route 36 from York Road and Northern Parkway to Riverview, and Route 11 from
Rodgers Forge
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/
GBMC/
Goucher College
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to the
Inner Harbor
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. This was ultimately scrapped.
In 2005, as part of the
Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative
The Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative (GBBI) (pronounced ''GIBBY'') was a sweeping overhaul planned by the Maryland Transit Administration under the administration of then-Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich and his transportation secretary Robert Fla ...
, it was proposed that Route 36 would be
combined with the southern portion of
Route 11 and extended along the
Washington Boulevard corridor to Riverview with
short turn
In public transport, a short turn, short working or turn-back is a service on a bus route or rail line that does not operate along the full length of the route. Short turn trips are often scheduled and published in a Public transport timetable, ti ...
s at
Monroe Street. This plan was delayed as a result of public outcry pertaining to other routes, and was not implemented that year.
Late in 2007, this change was proposed again, but it was also proposed that the routing in the
Lansdowne area would be modified to serve a new
Wal-Mart Supercenter
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that had recently been constructed. This change was implemented on February 17, 2008.
[MTA winter 2008 schedule changes]
See also
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History of MTA Maryland
The Maryland Transit Administration was originally known as the Baltimore Metropolitan Transit Authority, then the Maryland Mass Transit Administration before it changed to its current name in October 2001. The MTA took over the operations of the ...
References
{{Maryland Transit Administration bus routes, state=expanded
Maryland Transit Administration bus routes
1947 establishments in Maryland