Originally Posted by
mjgwi
I will be flying out of BWI on thursday and am hoping for some advice from you BWI frequenters. I am likely going to need to take the train up from Bethesda and my plan is to take the metro to the regional train that services BWI. I have never accessed the airport this way and is there anything that I need to keep in mind in doing so?
Thanks!
You are going to be looking at about 30 minutes on the metro between Bethesda and Union Station, then about 35 minutes on the MARC train (a bit less if you go on Amtrak). Here's the MARC schedule (MARC trains only run Monday through Friday and not on weekends or holidays):
http://mta.maryland.gov/sites/defaul...nn_Nov2011.pdf
Here is another way to BWI on public transit that runs 7 days a week that you may not have considered. Take the Metro in the northbound direction, to the end of the line at Shady Grove. There is a new public bus, Route 201, that runs to BWI airport along the new Inter-County Connector toll road.
http://www.mtaiccbus.com/route201.html#mapsa
I saw this bus at BWI Wednesday night and it is a large new inter-city style coach, not a street bus.
This looks to be a little bit longer; however, this bus will drop you off at the BWI terminal--if you take the train, the BWI train station is at least 2 miles from the air terminal, and you have to wait for a shuttle bus, which may or may not be sitting outside the BWI train station when you arrive, then takes at least 10 minutes to drive over to the airport.
Enjoy your trip.