[Chat] gettting from CV to National airport??

Farhad Vesuna farhadvesuna at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 13:31:43 EDT 2011


Since when did the Hopkins shuttle open to the public?

Farhad

On 7/1/11, chad abrams <abramschad at gmail.com> wrote:
> the cheapest i have found to park at BWI  is 7.65 per day (econopark
> express)..  i have to drive to the airport and then allow shuttle time to
> and from the airport at both ends.. pretty good w/ this service as they take
> you directly from/to your car.. but.. you've got 15 minutes at least at
> either end at the airport (not including transportation time to/from the
> airport)
>
> You can however get to BWI for $1.65 by hopping on a Hopkins shuttle to Penn
> and then taking the light rail.  You get on at Penn and take it 1 stop to Mt
> Royal and switch trains.  After you are on the 2nd light rail its about a 45
> min ride to the terminal.  OR from Penn you can take MARC and then a shuttle
> from the train station to the terminal.
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> You can also get to either national or dulles via public transportation.
>  Hopkins shuttle  to Penn/MARC and then to National/METRO (travel time is
> about 2 hours).      This takes you directly to the terminal.  MARC is 7
> bucks and metro is $3.65 or so (non-rush)...
>
> If you want to get to Dulles take METRO to Arlington and from there their is
> a 3 dollar non-stop shuttle (public transit or METRO-bus) right to the
> terminal.  So, you can get to Dulles for about $15 (and not have to deal w/
> traffic either!)
>
> >From my perspective, as important to me as time in getting to the airport
> is
> AVOIDING connecting flights.   In my searches for travel now I include
> dulles, national, bwi and even consider philadelphia and newark.  I'd much
> rather spend the time on the ground here, and near public transportation
> that can get me home rather than spending the time sitting in some airport
> HUB (chicago, atlanta, charlotte) and running the risk of missing the
> connection and not getting home at all.  I've heard too many travel horror
> stories/experienced my own.
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> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Schlegel, William B CW4 RES USAR USARC <
> william.schlegel at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
>> By the time you buy your MARC ticket and Metro farecard, not to mentiuon
>> the extra time, you would probably do just as well leaving from BWI.
>> Light
>> rail goes there, too!  Time is worth money, as well.
>>
>> Brad
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Fruhlinger" <jfruh at jfruh.com>
>> To: "The Charles Village Chat List" <chat at charlesvillage.info>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Chat] gettting from CV to National airport??
>>
>>
>>
>>  There's a stop on Washington's MetroRail Yellow Line right at the
>> National
>>> Airport terminal.  Quite easy to get to.
>>>
>>> You could do the whole trip from Charles Village via public transit.
>>> Take
>>> MARC from Penn Station to DC's Union Station, take the Red Line two stops
>>> to
>>> Chinatown, switch to the Yellow Line there.
>>>
>>> Google Maps actually will show you transit direction from anywhere to
>>> anywhere in the region.  Very useful.
>>>
>>> http://maps.google.com/
>>>
>>> jf
>>>
>>> On Jun 30, 2011, at 9:50 AM, langwidge at comcast.net wrote:
>>>
>>>  I just found out that flights out of national are often much much less
>>>> expensive than some flights out of BWI.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is how does "one" get to National.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone done this using public transportation for at least the latter
>>>> part of the drive??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Christine Gray
>>>>
>>>
>>
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