ABSTRACT
Urban transportation is a reflection of American urban policies: Transportation policies have done their share in decimating legacy cities like Baltimore, from private land developers building streetcars to their peripheral villages outside incorporated cities to car-centric policies that emphasized parking and funded freeways to get commuters back home into the burbs as quickly as possible. Less understood still is that transit is a linchpin of urban revitalization not only to attract a generation that doesn't want to drive everywhere, but also to free impoverished minority communities that are locked up in the formerly industrial cities. Buses became the means of transportation for the very young, the very old and the poor who had no car. Eventually in 1970, Baltimore's bus company was taken over by the state. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also enabled the connection of Locust Point and Port Covington as a place for warehouses and coal transfer from trains to ships.
