Route 310 (MTA Maryland)

310
Overview
System	Maryland Transit Administration
Operator	Dillon's Bus Service
Route
Communities served	Oakland Mills Long Reach
Landmarks served	The Mall in Columbia
Start	Downtown Baltimore
Via	I-95
End	Columbia
Service
Frequency	5 AM, 5 PM
Transfers	Metro Subway, Light Rail MTA Bus Routes 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 19, 20, 23, 27, 35, 36, 40, 48, 61, 64, 91, 120, 150, 160, 915, 929, 995, All Howard Transit lines

Route 310 is a commuter bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration and contracted to Dillon's Bus Service, operating between Columbia and Baltimore, Maryland. The line operates between Columbia and Downtown Baltimore, using the I-95 corridor as its primary route.

History

Route 310 was conjoined with a second service, Route 311. Though each line had a distinct route in the Columbia area, both shared I-95 as the express portion of their route, and both routes had their schedules printed in a joint timetable. The two lines provided a combined 34 trips each weekday, mostly during peak hours.^[1] Though MTA does not provide full-time bus service between Columbia and Baltimore, It is possible to travel between these points regularly on Howard Transit's Silver line and the Baltimore Light Rail, a trip that takes a few hours in one direction.

Original proposal to combine Routes 310 and 311 into a single line to be identified as Route 310 was in 2005 as part of the Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative. Under the new plan, only 12 trips would be provided each weekday, plus one midday trip on Friday, and service would not be provided to certain points in the Columbia area.^[2] The plan was opposed by the Howard County government, and no changes have been made to the line ever since.

In late 2008, MTA proposed to eliminate both Routes 310 and 311, which were used by a combined 435 riders,^[3] and encouraged riders to use MARC Train service in lieu of buses. In 2009, Route 311 was discontinued and the number of trips on Route 310 was reduced. This came after an initial plan to completely eliminate both lines.^[4] Route 150 absorbed some of this service.

References

Maryland Transit Administration

Bus

Local	1 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 27 29 30 31 33 35 36 38 44 qb40 qb46 qb47 qb48 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 64 77 91 97 98 99

Express	104 120 150 160

Commuter	201 202 203 204 205 310 320 410 411 420 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 909 915 922 929 950 991 995

Metro Subway

Green Line	Owings Mills Old Court Milford Mill Reisterstown Plaza Rogers Avenue West Coldspring Mondawmin Penn-North Upton State Center / Cultural Center Lexington Market Charles Center Shot Tower / Market Place Johns Hopkins Hospital

Light Rail

	Hunt Valley Pepper Road McCormick Road Gilroy Road Warren Road Timonium Timonium Business Park Lutherville Falls Road Mount Washington Cold Spring Lane Woodberry North Avenue

	Penn Station Mt. Royal / University of Baltimore Cultural Center / State Center Centre Street Lexington Market University Center / Baltimore Street Convention Center Camden Station

	Hamburg Street Westport Cherry Hill Patapsco Baltimore Highlands Nursery Road North Linthicum Linthicum

Cromwell Spur	Ferndale Cromwell / Glen Burnie

BWI Airport Spur	BWI Business District BWI Marshall Airport

MARC

Penn Line	Perryville Aberdeen Edgewood Martin Airport Penn Station West Baltimore station Halethorpe BWI Odenton Bowie State Seabrook New Carrollton Union Station

Camden Line	Camden Station St. Denis Dorsey Jessup Savage Laurel Race Track Laurel Muirkirk Greenbelt College Park–U of Md Riverdale Union Station

Brunswick Line	Martinsburg Duffields Harpers Ferry Brunswick Point of Rocks Frederick Monocacy Dickerson Barnesville Boyds Germantown Metropolitan Grove Gaithersburg Washington Grove Rockville Garrett Park Kensington Silver Spring Union Station

Facilities and stations

Proposed services

Baltimore Area	Red Line Green Line Extension Port Covington Extension Yellow Line Charles Street Trolley

Washington Area	Washington Purple Line Corridor Cities Transitway Southern Maryland Rapid Transit

Nearby transit agencies

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