Subway

Preakness transit service Light rail service * Take Light Rail to the Cold Spring Lane stop. * Take the connecting shuttle bus to the track. Shuttle bus service ends at 2 p.m. * Return service begins at approximately 6:15 p.m. and operates until 7:30 p.m. * $3.50 day pass required Metro subway service * Take Metro Subway to the Rogers Avenue Station. * Take the connecting shuttle bus to the track. Shuttle bus service ends at 2 p.m. * Return shuttle bus service to Rogers Avenue Station begins at approximately 6:15 p.m. and operates until 7:30 p.m. * $3.50 day pass required Local bus service * Nos. 27, 91, 44 lines, plus No. 54 via Park Heights Avenue all stop near the track.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office says it is looking for a man in connection with two armed robberies that occurred seven hours apart late Wednesday and early Thursday at a Subway sandwich shop and a Royal Farms store east of Bel Air. The latest of the two holdups occurred around 4 a.m. Thursday at the Royal Farms in the 1600 block of Churchville Road, the Sheriff's Office said in a news release Friday morning. Deputies responded to the convenience store, which is at the Fountain Green intersection of Routes 22 and 533, where the cashier told them they had been robbed at gunpoint.

Light Rail service * Take Light Rail to the Cold Spring Lane stop. * Take the connecting shuttle bus to the track. Shuttle bus service ends at 2 p.m. * Return service begins at approximately 6:15 p.m. and operates until 7:30 p.m. * $3.50 day pass required Metro Subway service * Take Metro Subway to the Rogers Avenue Station. * Take the connecting shuttle bus to the track. Shuttle bus service ends at 2 p.m. * Return shuttle bus service to Rogers Avenue Station begins at approximately 6:15 p.m. and operates until 7:30 p.m. * $3.50 day pass required Local bus service * Nos. 27, 91, 44 lines, plus No. 54 via Park Heights Avenue all stop near the track.

I was flying home with my kids a few days ago, and we stopped at Subway in the airport. After answering all their other questions -- "What kind of bread? Which cheese? Toasted or not? What toppings?" -- one of the questions floored me. "Girl or boy?" I was confused because Subway's kids' meals aren't usually as polarized as some -- where, say, at McDonald's, the Hot Wheels must be for the boys and the Hello Kitty for the girls. Never mind the fact that the time my son found a cat toy in his dinner bag, he was thrilled, or that plenty of girls love cars, too. "Huh?"

As a long time resident, I am against the opening of a chain Subway restaurant in Historic Ellicott City ("Subway franchise's entry riles Ellicott City," Feb. 24). Do we not have enough access to Subway restaurants in our surrounding neighborhoods? Do we really want the unique, quaint atmosphere of Main Street to be turned into just another homogenous strip mall? We already have a pawn shop, complete with ultra-tacky walking billboards, as well as numerous high density housing developments planned just around the corner, proposing to bring hundreds of new residents to the area.

By now, many have seen the horrific photograph from the front page of the New York Post ("Police question man in N.Y. subway train death," Dec. 5). A man clings helplessly to the platform of a New York subway seconds before he is struck and killed by an oncoming car. The man who took the photograph was lambasted and humiliated on the Today Show by the supreme judges, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie. They questioned, grilled and toasted the photographer. Their assumption was that the photographer should have been attempting to rescue the man who was shoved onto the path of the oncoming subway car. His reasoning was that he took multiple photographs with the flash to try to call attention to the car engineer to get him to stop.

A man with a gun robbed a 17-year-old clerk at a Hanover sandwich shop Friday night, getting away with an undetermined amount of money.Police said the man walked into a Subway shop, in the 7500 block of Connelley Drive in Hanover, shortly after 9 p.m. and threatened the clerk with a handgun.The cashier gave the cash drawer to the suspect, who was about 19 or 20 years old. Police said the man then jumped over the counter, grabbed more money and left.

A 60-year-old Metro operator was struck and killed by a subway train while crossing the tracks in a maintenance yard early yesterday morning, becoming the first fatality in the system's 10-year history.Walter James Wilson of the 3200 block of Normount Ave. in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Rosemont was declared dead at the scene, said Dianna Rosborough, spokeswoman for the Mass Transit Administration.A 38-year veteran of the transit system, Mr. Wilson was struck at 4:24 a.m. at MTA's yard at Wabash Avenue and Northern Parkway while walking from one Metro train to another.

Need to get something off your chest? Tell us and you could see your rant in a future issue of b. Send your rants to Twitter ( @bthesite ), text "RANT" to 70701 or call the hotline at 410.332.6660. I wanna say thank you to the person who found my license and mailed it back to me. Good to know somebody here has common sense. Have you noticed Subway commercials always make it look so good? And advertisers on the radio talk about “meat piled up,” but when you get there, they don't want to give you any meat.

A young Northwest Baltimore man was shot in the throat yesterday evening at the entrance to the Penn-North subway station on North Avenue, city police said.They did not have a motive for the shooting at 7:50 p.m., which temporarily closed the Metro station in the 1600 block of West North Avenue.The victim, Antonio DeShield, 18, of the 3800 block of Copley Road was transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was listed in critical condition this morning.Police said they were looking for a black male suspect, between 19 and 22 years old, wearing a red and white puffed jacket.

By now, many have seen the horrific photograph from the front page of the New York Post ("Police question man in N.Y. subway train death," Dec. 5). A man clings helplessly to the platform of a New York subway seconds before he is struck and killed by an oncoming car. The man who took the photograph was lambasted and humiliated on the Today Show by the supreme judges, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie. They questioned, grilled and toasted the photographer. Their assumption was that the photographer should have been attempting to rescue the man who was shoved onto the path of the oncoming subway car. His reasoning was that he took multiple photographs with the flash to try to call attention to the car engineer to get him to stop.

For the second consecutive year, transportation crews got their winter tune-up before Halloween, battling blinding rain and high winds as well as slick roads and blizzard conditions. At the height of the storm overnight, 132 state roads were closed and 111 signals were dark, according to the State Highway Administration. As snow piled up at more than an inch an hour in Western Maryland, a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 68 was closed as trucks with snowblower attachments and a "towplow," a double-wide snowplow, cleared the way. At the other end of the state, powerful floodwaters tore apart a 72-inch culvert under Old Ocean City Road and opened a huge sinkhole In all 1,200 SHA workers were on duty from Deep Creek Lake to Ocean City . "The challenge was the intensity and diversity of the storm," said Melinda Peters, SHA administrator.

As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, Falls Road was closed near Copper Hill Road, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on I-95 southbound near I-695 in Baltimore County, Burns Crossing Road near Mount Vista Road in Severn, I-95 northbound near I-395 in Baltimore City, and Route 7 near Stepney Road in Aberdeen. The Maryland Transit Administration is advising patrons of the Metro Subway system that there will be single tracking at the Johns Hopkins Hospital station until Oct. 24 at 4 a.m., due to repair work.

All world-class cities have extensive mass transportation systems, but with the exception of Toronto - which has a robust streetcar program to support its massive subway network - virtually every city in North America has abandoned streetcar systems ("A streetcar named Charles?" Oct. 3). Only now are cities like Washington beginning to bring streetcars back as a way to get people from neighborhoods to their subway spurs. Strong mass transportation is critical to strong quality of life, and in a city with high levels of middle- and low-income residents, mass transportation is all the more important.

A woman who fell onto the subway track at the State Center Metro station was seriously injured but is expected to survive after crawling into a space under the platform. The incident, which occurred around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, briefly shut down the metro station near the state office building northwest of downtown Baltimore, according to Terry Owens, a spokesman for the Maryland Transit Administration. The victim, who was not identified, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with lacerations and possible broken bones, Owens said.

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This week, Maryland transit officials unveiled their latest expansion plans to get riders to abandon their autos and hop aboard new subway and light-rail lines that, if built over the next 20 years, will speed them to White Marsh, Dundalk, Towson, Fells Point, the Inner Harbor East or Arundel Mills Mall. Ambitious? Yes. New? Not really. For nearly a century, Baltimore transit planners and officials of the now-vanished United Railways and Electric Co. and the Baltimore Transit Co. have offered plans on how to relieve Baltimore of its transit woes and offer comprehensive and reliable service.

With today's official start of Metro service to a new subway station at Johns Hopkins Hospital, city and state officials should take steps to determine the future of mass transit in Baltimore.The Metro was conceived as a 77-mile system with six lines. Today it has only one complete line -- the northwestern 14-mile route to Owings Mills. The Johns Hopkins leg could easily be the beginning of a northeastern route to White Marsh. But the high price means that is unlikely to happen.This short, 1.5-mile leg, which includes new stations at the Shot Tower as well as Hopkins, cost $343 million.

A man in a wheelchair was struck by a subway train at Lexington Market station Wednesday afternoon, closing the station while rescue workers freed him. Albert David Jagd,46, was in the hospital Wednesday night being treated for injuries that were not considered life threatening, said Terry Owens, spokesman for the Maryland Transit Administration. The accident happened at 3:05, when an eastbound train approached the station and could not stop in time. The man ended up under the train, Owens said.

The Maryland Transit Administration's underground Metro stations were shut down for about an hour and a half Monday as city fire department units performed air-quality tests in response to reports of natural-gas odors, fire officials said. Fire department spokesman Chief Kevin Cartwright said that just before noon a civilian at the State Center terminal reported a possible gas odor to a city police officer, who notified the fire department. He said that all MTA underground stations were then shut down, as fire and hazmat units conducted air monitoring in the stations.