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Water Taxi - Urban Transportation between Uber and the Bus
Is water the last frontier for urban transportation? Given that the presence of water has become an economic booster for cities, this wouldn't be an overly speculative assumption.
Take Baltimore: its Inner Harbor has not only become Baltimore's largest attraction - drawing about 14 million visitors every year - it is also a considerable barrier separating south Baltimore from Downtown. It disrupts the street grid, road traffic and bus lines alike, while its surface spreading into the Chesapeake Bay would be the ideal shortcut between all those thriving waterfront communities. These facts haven't gone unnoticed, of course. There has been a "water taxi" in place in Baltimore for 35 years. Still, name and mode of transportation need some explaining. In fact, Baltimore's Water Taxi really isn't a taxi at all. It has fixed routes and tries.... Read full article -------------------------------------------
Klaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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