MTA Maryland Route 7

Route 7 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It runs from Canton, Baltimore to the Mondawmin Metro Subway Station, serving the communities of Butcher's Hill, Little Italy, and Sandtown-Winchester.

History

The bus route is the successor to the 18 Canton, 18 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Hudson Street streetcar lines; the Pennsylvania Avenue Line was the second streetcar line in Baltimore. Between 1893 and 1931, the Route 7 designation was used for a streetcar that operated between Govanstown and Irvington as a short-turn version of the No. 8 Streetcar. The no. 7 designation was not given to this route until 1959, when it was combined with the Reisterstown Road bus, which at that time had that designation [ [http://www.btco.net/Routes/route0.htm Routes of Baltimore Transit - 1900 to Today ] ] . The Baltimore City Passenger Railway opened a line along Baltimore Street, Greene Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Cumberland Street to Boundary Avenue (now North Avenue) on August 24, 1859. The line was later extended along North Avenue, McCulloh Street, and Cloverdale Road to Madison Avenue, and through-routed to Canton (via Baltimore Street, Broadway, Bank Street, and other streets) as the Green Line.Clayton Coleman Hall, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=061HCe65YsL26ROqBv6g70&id=vCy9GAlzntAC Baltimore: Its History and Its People] vol. 1, Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), pp. 279, 545-551] [Baltimore City Passenger Railway Co. advertisement at the end of Clarence H. Forrest, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0usPqEx1nQilbYJH8iL&id=gC26z5NFTjQC Official History of the Fire Department of the City of Baltimore] , Williams & Wilkins (1898)] The line was electrified in 1894 and numbered Route 18 in 1899.

Bus Route L began serving Reisterstown Road to Pikesville on July 3, 1929. On June 27, 1948, it was combined with Route 5 as Route 5/7; Route 7 trips were extended downtown along Druid Hill Avenue, where Route 5 had run as a streetcar line until then. Route 18 was replaced by buses on June 8, 1952, and on September 6, 1959 it was absorbed into Route 7, which was shifted from Druid Hill Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Soon after the Metro Subway opened, Route 7 was truncated on June 18, 1984 to its current terminal at Mondawmin station during the subway's operating hours. One new route - Route M-2 - was formed beyond Mondawmin, along Reisterstown Road to Old Court Road at Pikesville. It was extended to the Old Court Metro Subway Station on August 31, 1987, soon after that station opened. Route 7 was truncated full-time to Mondawmin in 2001, when subway and Route M-2 hours were extended.

ee also

*History of MTA Maryland
*List of MTA Maryland bus routes
*MTA Maryland former bus routes

References

*Baltimore Transit Archives [www.btco.net]

External links

*PDFlink| [http://www.mtamaryland.com/services/bus/routes/bus/7_schedule_8-0533.pdf Route 7 schedule] |1.10 MiB
*PDFlink| [http://www.mtamaryland.com/services/bus/routes/mline/m02_0204.pdf Route M-2 schedule] |222 KiB