Mr. Trash Wheel
Mr. Trash Wheel called the Inner Harbor Water Wheel, is a trash interceptor, a vessel that removes trash from the Jones Falls river as it empties into the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, it is powered by water wheels and solar cells, places trash from the harbor onto an onboard conveyor belt which routes it into dumpsters on the vessel. Mr. Trash Wheel was invented by John Kellett in 2008. A larger vessel was developed; the Mr. Trash Wheel vessel is part of the Waterfront Partnership of the City of Baltimore's "Healthy Harbor Plan." Mr. Trash Wheel is a moored vessel that removes trash from the mouth of the Jones Falls river at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Rubbish from the streets of Baltimore is flushed into storm drains that empty into the Jones Falls river; the floating rubbish is carried by the river to its outlet into the Inner Harbor, where it is captured by Mr. Trash Wheel. Mr. Trash Wheel is powered by the current from the river, backup power is provided by solar panels when the current is sluggish.
These power a conveyor belt. Mr. Trash Wheel removes floating debris using rotating forks that dip into and out of the water, which place the trash onto a conveyor belt which moves it into a dumpster; the water wheel can be controlled remotely on the Internet. Mr. Trash Wheel was constructed using $720,000 of private funding. Mr. Trash Wheel was invented by John Kellett, who developed the idea when observing trash in the harbor while passing Pier 6 on his walk to work. A pilot trash wheel was built and launched in the harbor by Kellett in 2008, after this, Kellett built a larger machine, launched in May 2014, able to pick up larger matter and held two dumpsters onboard; the use of two dumpsters allows the vessel to operate longer, without having to go back to shore to empty the single dumpster, used on the initial pilot vessel. On April 20, 2015, after the first significant rain storm of the season, Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's waterfront on that one day; the previous record for debris removal occurred on May 16, 2014, when the machine removed 11 tons of refuse on that day.
At the end of the third quarter in 2016, it was noted that Mr. Trash Wheel had collected over 1,000,000 pounds of trash since its inception. Mr. Trash Wheel is part of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore's "Healthy Harbor Plan", which has a goal to clean up the harbor to the point of making it swimmable by the year 2020. In 2015, the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore began fundraising efforts to construct a second water wheel like Mr. Trash Wheel for use "off the Boston Street Pier Park" at the Harris Creek outfall in Canton, Baltimore; this second trash wheel has been given the nickname "Professor Trash Wheel."Adam Lindquist, director of the Healthy Harbor Initiative, approached What Works Studio to leverage the popularity of a video of the device in 2015. What Works Studio Creative Strategist Justin Allen was struck with the organic look of the device and suggested personifying it with googly eyes and giving it a name. Several names were suggested by the What Works Studio staff but Mr. Trash Wheel is the one that stuck.
What Works Studio suggested using Twitter as its primary channel for communication where it started gaining a following under the management of multiple What Works Studio staff. At this point, the googly eyes only existed on images of the trash wheel; the first set of physical eyes, which Lindquist had handmade in his spare time, were removed after a brief period. In March 2016, Key Tech, a Baltimore-based technology solutions company donated a more robust pair of permanent eyes. Two additional "members" of the Trash Wheel "family" have since been added to patrol the Inner Harbor. "Solar-Powered Water Wheel is Cleaning Baltimore's Inner Harbor". NBC News. October 29, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2017. Baker, Brandon. "Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Baltimore's Trash Per Day". Moyers & Company. Retrieved March 16, 2017. "Mr. Trash Wheel, une machine qui nettoie le port de Baltimore". Canoe.ca. Retrieved March 18, 2017. Baker, Brandon. "How a Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Trash Per Day From Baltimore's Inner Harbor".
Eco Watch. Retrieved March 16, 2017. Boteler, Cody. "Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel could get a cousin in Hawaii". WMAR-TV. Retrieved March 18, 2017. Trash Wheel Project. Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore. Mr. Trash Wheel Twitter site Healthy Harbor Baltimore Canton Water Wheel
Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore)
Baltimore Pennsylvania Station is the main transportation hub in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by New York architect Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison, it was constructed in 1911 in the Beaux-Arts style of architecture for the Pennsylvania Railroad, it is located at 1515 N. Charles Street, about a mile and a half north of downtown and the Inner Harbor, between the Mount Vernon neighborhood to the south, Station North to the north. Called Union Station because it served the Pennsylvania Railroad and Western Maryland Railway, it was renamed to match other Pennsylvania Stations in 1928; the building sits on a raised "island" of sorts between two open trenches, one for the Jones Falls Expressway and the other the tracks of the Northeast Corridor. The NEC approaches from the south through the two-track, 7,660-foot Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, which opened in 1873 and whose 30 mph limit, sharp curves, steep grades make it one of the NEC's worst bottlenecks; the NEC's northern approach is the 1873 Union Tunnel, which has one single-track bore and one double-track bore.
Penn Station is the eighth-busiest rail station in the United States by number of passengers served each year. Penn Station is served by Amtrak, MARC, the Maryland Transit Administration's light rail system; the station is the northern terminus of the Light Rail's Penn-Camden shuttle, connecting the Mount Vernon neighborhood with downtown. MARC offers service between Washington, D. C. and Perryville. Amtrak Acela Express and Northeast Regional trains from Penn Station serve destinations along the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington, D. C; some Regional trains from the station continue into Virginia and serve Alexandria, Newport News, Norfolk and points in between. Other long-distance trains from the station serve: St. Albans, Vermont Charlottesville, Virginia Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina Atlanta, Georgia New Orleans, Louisiana Jacksonville, Orlando and Miami, Florida Huntington, West Virginia Cincinnati, Ohio Indianapolis, Indiana Chicago, IllinoisIn the 1970s and 1980s, Amtrak offered service to Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, St. Louis and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Before Amtrak's creation on May 1, 1971, Penn Station served as the main Baltimore station for its original owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad, though passenger trains of the Western Maryland Railway used Penn Station as well. Until the late 1960s, the PRR operated long-distance trains over its historic Northern Central Railway line from Penn Station to Harrisburg and beyond, such as "The General" to Chicago, the "Spirit of St. Louis" to its Missouri namesake, the "Buffalo Day Express" and overnight "Northern Express" between Washington, DC, Buffalo, New York; as late as 1956, this route hosted the "Liberty Limited" to Chicago and the "Dominion Limited" to Toronto, Canada. The Baltimore Light Rail now operates over much of the Northern Central Railway's right of way in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Light Rail service began in 1997; as part of the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project, the station was restored to its 1911 appearance in 1984. The station's use as a Western Maryland station stop allowed passengers from Penn Station to ride directly to various Maryland towns such as Westminster and Cumberland.
Passenger service on the Western Maryland ended in 1958. Baltimore Penn Station is used for MARC train storage during the weekends and overnight via off-peak service times on tracks 1, 3, 5, F. Pennsylvania Station opened on September 15, 1911, it is the third railroad depot on its North Charles Street site. The first one was a wooden structure built by the Northern Central Railway that began operating in 1873; this was replaced in 1886 by the Charles Street Union Station, which featured a three-story brick building situated below street level with a sloping driveway that led to its entrance and a train shed that measured 76 by 360 feet. The old station was demolished in January 1910. During what became known as the Checkers speech, on September 23, 1952, Richard Nixon a U. S. Senator from California and the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President, cited Penn Station as the place where a package was waiting for him, containing a cocker spaniel dog his daughter Tricia would name "Checkers."
Nixon referred to the station by its former name, "Union Station in Baltimore." In 2004, the City of Baltimore, through its public arts program, commissioned sculptor Jonathan Borofsky to create a sculpture as the centerpiece of a re-designed plaza in front of Penn Station. His work, a 51-foot -tall aluminum statue entitled Male/Female, has generated considerable controversy since, its defenders cite the contemporary imagery and artistic expression as complementing an urban landscape, while opponents criticize what they decry as a clash with Penn Station's Beaux-Arts architecture, detracting from its classic lines. Penn Station offers a magazine store that sells quick necessities, two restaurants, including Dunkin' Donuts, Java Moon Cafe. Parking is available at the station through a garage with 550 parking spaces, owned by the Baltimore Parking Authority. ZipCar has three vehicles based at the station. Several proposals have been made to convert the upper floors of the station into a hotel. Proposals from 2001 and 2006 were never completed.
In 2009, Amtrak reached an agreement with a developer for a 77-room hotel to be called The Inn at Penn Station. This project stalled along with many other hotel proposals in Baltimore. An agreement
Lake Roland (park)
Lake Roland Park is a city/county park encompassing over 500 acres of woodland, serpentine barrens, rare plants and rocky plateaus surrounding Lake Roland in Baltimore County, Maryland. The park is located near the intersection of Falls Road and Lake Avenue, adjacent to the Falls Road Light Rail Stop of the Baltimore Light Rail, which runs from Cromwell Station near Glen Burnie in Anne Arundel County in the south to Hunt Valley of Baltimore County; the line runs along a railroad embankment and trestle over the lake above the dam, cutting the park into a two-thirds wooded northern part and the one-third southern portion around the dam, picnic groves and pumping station. Though the park is located just outside the northern limits of Baltimore city, it is owned by the city and operated as a park since the 1920s by the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks and is now leased to neighboring Baltimore County and operated by their parks agency, in a similar arrangement to the situation with Fort Smallwood Park, several miles southeast of the city along the Patapsco River's south shore in Anne Arundel County, transferred for lease to that suburban county's jurisdiction.
After years of disrepair, the park was temporarily closed on December 16, 2009, when Baltimore County assumed operation of the Park for which Baltimore City's government still "retains title," for $6 million in extensive renovation, working with the Wallace Montgomery and Human & Rohde, Inc. construction companies, including "pavilions, trails, bridges and a dog park." Under the new administration of Baltimore County's Parks and Recreation, the park was reopened to the public on Friday, October 14, 2011. The lake was constructed in the late 1850s after the city's 1854 purchase of the assets of the owned Baltimore Water Company, following a long political controversy about the company's failure to extend water lines and service into the outlying areas of town after the most recent annexation of 1818 which moved the city's northern boundary to then-called Boundary Avenue; the "Beaver Dam" marble old pumping station on the eastern shore of the lake contains a marble pedestal engraved with the dates and names of the pertinent officials and contractors involved in its construction and completion in 1860–61, along with another stone tablet that used to lie at the dam's western end before its reconstruction in the mid-1990s by the city.
Further to the south, the city had just purchased the former Lloyd Nicholas Rogers estate "Druid Hill", first settled in the mid-1660s and with manor plantation houses reconstructed several times since, most in 1800 with what became called the "Mansion House". It formed the third largest municipal landscaped park in the country. Druid Lake was carved out and landscaped to add capacity to the newly expanded first municipal water supply system using the waters of the inter-connecting Jones Falls which flowed south through the central city to the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River and the Baltimore Harbor; the system of parks for the City of Baltimore along the various stream valleys with inter-connected landscaped boulevards or parkways was designed and laid out by the famous landscape architect and developer Frederick Law Olmsted and the company established by his sons in two famous reports in 1904 and 1926, of which Lake Roland and its Dam formed and integral part. Lake Roland Historic District, declared in 1992, is a national historic district in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, United States.
It consists of a man-made lake, Lake Roland, portions of the Jones Falls and Roland Run streambeds, portions of the rights-of-way of former Green Spring Valley Railroad and the Northern Central Railway. The central portion of the historic district is occupied by Lake Roland, with a stone dam capped by a stone valve house, built in 1858–1861; the lake was developed in the mid 19th century as a part of the city's municipal water system and built as the main reservoir. The lake is surrounded by open woods. In 1945, the park was designated as the Robert E. Lee Memorial Park after General Robert E. Lee, who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War; this was done at the request of wealthy Baltimorean Elizabeth B. Garrett White, the wife of segregationist Robert Garrett chairman of the Baltimore City Recreation Commission, who required that when she died, the proceeds from the sale of her estate was to be used to erect a monument for Lee, used to name the park instead.
Until the name of the park, just outside city limits, changed to Lake Roland, some saw it as a "lovely spot" but a "reminder of the city's stance on race," a "vestige of racism" or "heritage of hate," while some historians argued that the name of "Roland Park" has "its own history as one of the most exclusive and segregated white neighborhood's in Baltimore," opening the name up to possible criticism in the future. In the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting and in response to the general controversy revolving the display of Confederate symbols, there was debate about changing the name of the park. In June 2015, the County Executive of Baltimore County, Kevin Kamenetz, asked officials of Baltimore City for a name change, saying that "we've been talking for months about a name change that better reflects this unique amenity. We believe Lake Roland Park is more reflective of this open space treasure, we are confident that the City will approve our request, I expect to make a joint announcement with the City about the name change in the near future."
On September 28, 2015, Baltimore County renamed the park to Lake Roland a
Daylighting (streams)
In urban design and urban planning, daylighting is the redirection of a stream into an above-ground channel. The rationale behind daylighting is to revert a stream of water to a more natural state, for the purposes of runoff reduction, habitat creation for species in need of it, or for aesthetic purposes. Daylighting is intended to revitalize the riparian environment for a stream, diverted into a culvert, pipe, or a drainage system. In the UK, the practice is known as deculverting; the term refers to the public process toward such projects. According to the Planning and Development Department of the City of Berkeley, "A general consensus has developed that protecting and restoring natural creeks' functions is achievable over time in an urban environment while recognizing the importance of property rights." Natural drainage systems help manage stormwater by infiltrating and slowing the flow of stormwater and bioremediating pollutants by soils and plants, reducing impervious surfaces, using porous paving, increasing vegetation, improving related pedestrian amenities.
Natural features — open, vegetated swales, stormwater cascades, small wetland ponds — mimic the functions of nature lost to urbanization. At the heart are plants and the deep, healthy soils that support them. All three combine to form a "living infrastructure" that, unlike pipes and vaults, increase in functional value over time; some efforts to blend urban development with natural systems use innovative drainage design and landscaping instead of traditional curbs and gutters and vaults. One such demonstration project in the Pipers Creek watershed reduced imperviousness by more than 18 percent; the project built bioswales, landscape elements intended to remove silt and pollution from surface runoff water and planted 100 evergreen trees and 1,100 shrubs. From 2001 to 2003, the project reduced the volume of stormwater leaving the street in a 2-year storm event by 98%; such a reduction can reduce storm damage to water quality and habitats for species such as the iconic salmon. The engineering alternatives have a expensive initial price, since they are replacing existing structures, albeit life-limited ones.
Further, conventional systems do not consider full cost accounting. The NDS alternatives can provide returns on investment by improving urban environments; the Street Edge Alternatives Street breaks most of the conventions of 150 years of standard American street design. Narrow, curved streets, open drainage swales, an abundance of diverse plants and trees welcome pedestrians as well as diverse species. Adjacent residents maintain city infrastructure in the form of street "gardens" in front of their homes, visually integrating the neighborhood along the street; the Natural Drainage System united the community visually and socially. The 110th Cascades SEA are a creek-like cascade of stair-stepped natural, seasonal pools that intercept, infiltrate and filter over 21 acres of stormwater draining through the project. Viable, daylighted streams can exist only in intimate connection with restoration and stewardship by the neighbourhoods of their watersheds in a long run, since the good health of an urban stream could not long survive carelessness or neglect.
With impervious surfaces having replaced most of the natural ground cover in urban environments, habitat for wildlife is reduced compared to historic baselines. Hydrologic changes have resulted, impervious waterways directly carry non-point pollution through urban creeks. One effective solution is to restore riparian habitat; this improves the entire urban watershed, far beyond the riparian channel itself. In the 1880s there were over 50 wild salmon streams in Vancouver alone. However, as Vancouver grew, these streams were lost to urbanization, they were covered by roads and businesses. They were lost when they were buried beneath sewers or culverts; the City of Vancouver and its residents are now making an effort to uncover these lost streams and restore them back to their natural state. The Hastings Creek Stream Daylighting Project was proposed in 1994 as a way to manage storm water and for aesthetic purposes; the idea was to bring the stream back to its once natural formation which would improve the surrounding habitat for wildlife as well as the proposed purposes.
This project's plan was finalized in 1997, work began the same year. The stream had existed in Hastings Park until 1935 when the Park became focused on entertainment rather than its original purpose when it was given to the city in 1889, to be a retreat for those with a passion for the outdoors; as the Pacific Nation Exhibition grounds continued to expand there was a continued loss of natural woodlands and waterways. It was not until the 1980s when the surrounding community began to look at continuing to uphold its original purpose; the daylighting project made major progress in 2013 in the area located in the Creekway Park, a parking lot. The daylighted stream will one day connect the Sanctuary in Hastings Park to the Burrard Inlet; the progress made in Creekway Park is a major step towards this goal. This daylighting project improved pedestrian and bikeway transit; this stream is now able to obtain the stormwater from the surrounding area, which reduces the load, felt by the municipality's storm sewers.
It is the storms in early autumn which provide the water flow for the creek, meaning that there is variable flow throughout the year. During the late summer months the moist soil is relied upon to maintain the vegetation of the area; this variation in flow does not allow for salmon migration through th
Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. The stream encompasses surface and groundwater fluxes that respond to geological, geomorphological and biotic controls. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are called rivers. Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle, instruments in groundwater recharge, corridors for fish and wildlife migration; the biological habitat in the immediate vicinity of a stream is called a riparian zone. Given the status of the ongoing Holocene extinction, streams play an important corridor role in connecting fragmented habitats and thus in conserving biodiversity; the study of streams and waterways in general is known as surface hydrology and is a core element of environmental geography. Brook A stream smaller than a creek one, fed by a spring or seep, it is small and forded. A brook is characterised by its shallowness.
Creek In North America and New Zealand, a small to medium-sized natural stream. Sometimes navigable by motor craft and may be intermittent. In parts of Maryland, New England, the UK and India, a tidal inlet in a salt marsh or mangrove swamp, or between enclosed and drained former salt marshes or swamps. In these cases, the stream is the tidal stream, the course of the seawater through the creek channel at low and high tide. River A large natural stream, which may be a waterway. Runnel the linear channel between the parallel ridges or bars on a shoreline beach or river floodplain, or between a bar and the shore. Called a swale. Tributary A contributory stream, or a stream which does not reach a static body of water such as a lake or ocean, but joins another river. Sometimes called a branch or fork. There are a number of regional names for a stream. Allt is used in Highland Scotland. Beck is used in Lincolnshire to Cumbria in areas which were once occupied by the Danes and Norwegians. Bourne or winterbourne is used in the chalk downland of southern England.
Brook. Burn is used in North East England. Gill or ghyll is seen in Surrey influenced by Old Norse; the variant "ghyll" is used in the Lake District and appears to have been an invention of William Wordsworth. Nant is used in Wales. Rivulet is a term encountered in Victorian era publications. Stream Syke is used in lowland Cumbria for a seasonal stream. Branch is used to name streams in Virginia. Creek is common throughout the United States, as well as Australia. Falls is used to name streams in Maryland, for streams/rivers which have waterfalls on them if such falls have a small vertical drop. Little Gunpowder Falls and The Jones Falls are rivers named in this manner, unique to Maryland. Kill in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey comes from a Dutch language word meaning "riverbed" or "water channel", can be used for the UK meaning of'creek'. Run in Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, or West Virginia can be the name of a stream. Run in Florida is the name given to streams coming out of small natural springs.
River is used for larger springs like the Silver Rainbow River. Stream and brook are used in Midwestern states, Mid-Atlantic states, New England. Bar A shoal that develops in a stream as sediment is deposited as the current slows or is impeded by wave action at the confluence. Bifurcation A fork into two or more streams. Channel A depression created by constant erosion. Confluence The point at which the two streams merge. If the two tributaries are of equal size, the confluence may be called a fork. Drainage basin The area of land. A large drainage basin such as the Amazon River contains many smaller drainage basins. Floodplain Lands adjacent to the stream that are subject to flooding when a stream overflows its banks. Gaging station A site along the route of a stream or river, used for reference marking or water monitoring. Headwaters The part of a stream or river proximate to its source; the word is most used in the plural where there is no single point source. Knickpoint The point on a stream's profile where a sudden change in stream gradient occurs.
Mouth The point at which the stream discharges via an estuary or delta, into a static body of water such as a lake or ocean. Pool A segment where the water is deeper and slower moving. Rapids A turbulent, fast-flowing stretch of a stream or river. Riffle A segment where the flow is shallower and more turbulent. River A large natural stream, which may be a waterway. Run A somewhat smoothly flowing segment of the stream. Source The spring, or other point of origin of a stream. Spring The point at which a stream emerges from an underground course through unconsolidated sediments or through caves. A stream can with caves, flow aboveground for part of its course, underground for part of its course. Stream bed The bottom of a stream. Stream corridor Stream, its floodplains, the transitional upland fringe Streamflow The water moving through a stream channel. Thalweg The river's longitudinal section, or the line joining the deepest point in the channel at each stage from source to mouth. Waterfall or cascade The fall of water where the stream goes over a sudden drop called a knickpoint.
The stream expends kinetic energy in "trying" to eliminate the
Jones Falls Trail
Jones Falls Trail is a hiking and bicycling trail in Baltimore, Maryland. It runs along the length of the namesake Jones Falls, a major north–south stream in and north of the city that has long acted as a major transportation corridor for the city, it incorporates the bike path encircling Druid Hill Reservoir and its namesake park. The Jones Falls Trail forms a segment of the East Coast Greenway, a completed network of off-road bicycling routes that runs the length of the East Coast, it is projected to extend from the Baltimore waterfront at the Inner Harbor north to the Mount Washington neighborhood, passing through Cylburn Arboretum and Mount Washington Arboretum. The Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks owns and maintains the trail. At present, the Jones Falls Trail begins in downtown Baltimore and winds its way north to the Cylburn neighborhood, it has on-street sections, paths parallel to city streets, unique alignments. The trail begins by running along a segregated path along the west side of the Inner Harbor, alongside Light Street and beginning at the Conway Street intersection.
The parallel trail transitions to Pratt Street and continues eastward to Market Street, where it ends. The trail turns east onto the north sidewalk of Lombard Street north again along the west bank of the namesake Jones Falls; as it meets President Street, it turns north once again after crossing said street, continuing on the eastern sidewalk. The Trail meets an alignment that follows the Fallsway, it follows to the west until it meets Madison Street, at which point the Trail alignment switches to the east side of the street. Fallsway passes over I-83 and merges with Guilford Avenue curves to the west and becomes Mount Royal Avenue. Upon reaching Saint Paul Street, the Trail turns north along the street's east side, passing over the Jones Falls once more and passing to the east of Penn Station; the Jones Falls Trail turns west onto Lanvale Street, following the south sidewalk, although the street possesses sharrows and the one-way section east of Charles Street has a contraflow bike lane. After crossing Maryland Avenue, the Jones Falls Trail follows Falls Road's sidewalk into the Jones Falls Valley, passing underneath the bridges Howard Street and North Avenue use to cross the valley.
After passing the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, the Trail returns to the west side of the road, separated from MD 25 by a reverse barrier and trees, running right against the bank of the Jones Falls. This alignment continues until it passes underneath the 29th Street Bridge the Trail climbs up a steep grade, crosses the street once more, rises out of the valley on a switchback, joining Wyman Park Drive; the Trail turns west here, passing high over the Jones Falls once more and crossing I-83 once again, continuing to climb out of the valley as it approaches Druid Hill Park. In Druid Hill Park, the Jones Falls Trail includes the entire loop road around Druid Lake Reservoir, a bike path that runs clockwise around it; the trail enters from the northeast side and exits to the northwest of the lake, climbing as it loops around to the west and south, meeting Beechwood Drive and continuing north along the street's east side. Going along this route, the trail passes by the Maryland Zoo, where the trail leaves the sidepath route and follows its own alignment once more, entering a wooded area.
It features a number of sharp curves, branching paths, two switchbacks as it descends toward Woodberry. In Woodberry, the Jones Falls Trail becomes an on-street route once more, entering on Parkdale Avenue, it turns to the right onto Clipper Park Road, utilizing its entire length to Clipper Road. Here, the East Coast Greenway separates from the Jones Falls Trail; this intersection is nearby the Woodberry station. Clipper Road becomes one-way to motor vehicles; the trail separates from the road once again, entering another wooded area. It turns west to the crosswalk at Tamarind Road. Beyond here, the Jones Falls Trail continues to the north at Tamarind Road, following its own unique alignment just to the east of the street, it continues up to Springarden Drive, running to the north of that street with street lights running down the center of the path, before turning onto Greenspring Avenue and running to Cylburn Avenue, next to the entrance of Cylburn Arboretum. Here, the trail temporarily ends; the trail will pass through Cylburn Arboretum.
It will cross Northern Parkway on a wooden bridge and end at Mount Washington Light Rail Station. The Jones Falls Trail was conceived in the late 1990s. Construction, began later; the Trail is still with its schedule broken into five phases. Of these, only Phase V has not been completed. Phase I is the oldest section of the Jones Falls Trail, a 1.6-mile stretch from Penn Station to Druid Hill Park completed in 2004. Phase II is the 2.5-mile long stretch between the Inner Harbor. This phase included reconstruction of the abandoned streetcar right-of-way used by the trail on Pratt Street into a full-fledged bike path, although this section was being used as a bike path shortly before its reconstruction, it included the widening of several sidewalks, including the east sidewalk of Saint Paul Street and the east si
Brooklandville, Maryland
Brooklandville is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, United States near where the Jones Falls Expressway meets the Baltimore Beltway. The general area is a part of Lutherville, some addresses in the area are considered to be in Lutherville, though Brooklandville has a postal zone and post office of its own; some notable landmarks in the area, including the Park School of Baltimore and St. Paul's Schools are technically within Brooklandville, as noted by their mailing addresses. However, addresses within the main office complex in the area, Green Spring Station, are considered to be within Lutherville; the Green Spring Station complex is located at the intersection of Falls and Joppa Roads, near the interchange of I-695 and the Jones Falls Expressway, is bordered by Greenspring Valley Road, though the segment of this road that runs through the complex is identified as Station Drive. Seminary Avenue begins close to the location; the complex has offices for several large companies, as well as some upscale shops, restaurants and the largest indoor tennis facility in the Mid-Atlantic.
The most notable company with offices at Green Spring Station is Johns Hopkins Hospital, which has a satellite branch that takes up a large portion of the grounds, has been operating at this location since 1994. Maryvale Preparatory is an independent Catholic girls' school, it was used as a filming location for the 1997 Clint Eastwood movie Absolute Power, as the Washington DC mansion of Walter Sullivan. The main roads in the Brooklandville area are Falls Road, Greenspring Valley Road, Joppa Road, Old Court Road; the Green Spring Station complex on weekdays is served by the Maryland Transit Administration's Bus Route 60 every 40–60 minutes. This bus links to the Mt. Washington Light Rail Stop and the Reisterstown Plaza Metro Subway Station. Free service to Green Spring Station from the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus is available on the hospital's Green Spring Shuttle hourly on weekdays. Marty Bass - Brooklandville resident, WJZ weatherman Brooklandville House The Cloisters Johns Hopkins Greenspring home page Johns Hopkins Green Spring Shuttle schedule Green Spring Racquet Club
