Drew Moore considers his family to be a public transportation household, with members making regular use of buses and light rail to get in and out of downtown Baltimore from their house in Mount Washington. But when light rail cars were too crowded — and few and far between — to take back after the Bruce Springsteen concert last month, Moore said he hopped on a Lime bike and pedaled a frustrating 45 minutes home.
“Subsequently, I went to an Orioles game with my family and we just drove,” said Moore, 46. “I wasn’t gonna subject my kids to that situation. … It’s frustrating because I would love to take public transportation if it functioned.”
Though infrequent, the sometimes overcrowded nature of the Maryland Transit Administration light rail on event days has some fans rethinking whether public transportation is the most convenient way to get to concerts and Orioles or Ravens games. Following an Orioles game Sept. 20, light rail cars were so full that children and parents stood on the steps inside with nowhere else to go, some fans said.