When James Pettigrew heard that Metro was planning to eliminate the B30 bus to BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, he tried to come up with a good alternative.
There aren’t many. The B30 is a crucial bus connection from D.C. to BWI, and the first thing officials (possibly with private-sector help) should be examining before cutting or scaling back service is transportation demand management.
The line would be more successful if there were simply a strong initiative to actually let people know it exists.
It serves an average of 370 riders daily. That is, indeed, far too low. But with the near-continuously awful traffic along that stretch of the BW Parkway and I-95, saving and enhancing this bus should be an all-hands-on-deck solution.