Responding to the requests of staff, residents and students
for expanded transportation service between Canton, Fells
Point and the East Baltimore campus, Johns Hopkins Medicine
has been working with the Maryland Transit Authority and
last week announced that the MTA is adding additional stops
on its No. 13 bus line.
George Economas, director of parking and
transportation for JHM, said that the enhanced MTA
route — which provides nearly 20 hours of continuous
service
every day, including weekends and holidays — will offer
more
extensive and convenient transportation options than the
limited shuttle service that the JHM Parking and
Transportation Office initiated on a pilot basis last
March.
The shuttle from the campus to Fells Point, which will
be discontinued on Aug. 4, had just four stops, operating
only between 6 and 8 a.m. and between 5 and 7 p.m. Also,
the shuttle, Economas noted, did not provide service to
most of Canton, where an increasing number of Johns Hopkins
employees live.
A survey of the pilot shuttle riders conducted in
April showed that expanded hours of service and access to
Canton were key requests. The MTA's No. 13 bus has a Fells
Point leg that follows the same Wolfe and Washington
streets route to the campus as the pilot shuttle but also
continues along Boston Street into Canton. Another leg goes
from the campus through East Baltimore north of Patterson
Park and then through Highlandtown to Canton.
Hopkins leaders have held meetings with medical
student and house staff representatives about the service
change.
Hopkins employees can purchase pre-tax monthly passes
for the MTA buses from either the university's WageWorks
program or the health system's Benefits Office. Students in
the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health can
purchase discounted monthly permits through their school's
business office.
Updated schedules for the No. 13 bus line will be
available via handouts distributed on the Fells Point
shuttle, in the Parking ID Office located in 108
Harvey/Nelson and online at
www.mtamaryland.com/services/subway schedule and
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/security/transportation.
Corporate Security's transportation service will
continue to provide its other 13 shuttle routes, including
two for satellite parking lots, eight in and around the
East Baltimore campus, one to Bayview, one for on-call and
one to the Mount Washington campus.
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