CityLink Purple (BaltimoreLink)

CityLink Purple
Overview
SystemMTA BaltimoreLink
GarageEastern
Bush
StatusActive
Began service1959
PredecessorsWest side: No. 8 Streetcar, Bus Routes 2, 8
East side: No. 10 Streetcar
Route
LocaleBaltimore City
Baltimore County
Communities servedYale Heights
Irvington
Little Italy
Fells Point
Highlandtown
Landmarks servedB&O Railroad Museum
Convention Center
Harborplace
National Aquarium
Patterson Park
Other routes1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 30, 35, 36, qb40, qb46, qb48, 51, 61, 64, 77, 91, 99, 120, 150, 160
Service
LevelDaily
FrequencyEvery 15 minutes
Every 15 minutes (peak)
Weekend frequencyEvery 15-30 minutes
Operates24 hours a day[1]

CityLink Purple (abbreviated PR) is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in Baltimore and its suburbs. The line currently runs from the Wal-Mart parking lot in Catonsville to Bullneck Road/Turner's Station Dundalk (the destination sign found on buses) mostly along the corridors of Frederick Road on the west side and Eastern Avenue on the east side, serving the communities of Yale Heights, Pigtown, downtown Baltimore, Fells Point, and Highlandtown.

The bus route is the successor to the 8 Catonsville, 10 Highlandtown, and 26 Sparrows Point streetcar lines.[2]

  1. ^ Schedule February 2011 mta.maryland.gov [dead link]
  2. ^ Harwood, Herbert H. (2003). Baltimore Streetcars: The Postwar Years. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp 116-125. ISBN 0-8018-7190-5.