West Virginia Will Pay 1.5 Million to Marc

The full title of the Balt Sun article "West Virginia will pay Maryland $1.5 million to keep MARC service for a year. Then what?"


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The article discusses funding issues between West Virginia and Marc as well as some interviews with passengers.

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"Backshophoss"
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Makes the entire setup unstable from the start.

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Sand Box John wrote:"Backshophoss"
Even with a full array of ad blockers, the outbrain AD app make the article unreadable by pushing thru unneeded crap!
Makes the entire setup unstable from the start.

I am guessing you are using some form of portable device. If so, see if you can edit the hosts file. My desktop computers redirects some 16,000 unwanted web sites to 127.0.0.1 by use of the hosts file. In Windows boxes the hosts file is in %SystemRoute%/windows/system32/drivers/etc In Linux boxes its in /etc . 616 kb text file does the work of all those ad blockers.

Ad blocking using hosts file.

I'm not aware of any way to set this on either major mobile operating system - at all on iOS, without root access on Android, which is a non-starter for many users due the security issues and the existence of Knox and Safetynet. Besides, it's still valid to raise this issue about the linked website because some other forum users might not have the technical know-how for such a change.

WV has a good point about the cost of the subsidy. With only a few hundred people, it is an absurd expenditure of taxpayer dollars. If all the people who drive past the WV stations to board at Brunswick stopped doing that, what would the ridership be from the WV stations?

As long as MARC isn't wedded to Martinsburg because of service facilities, it makes as much sense for WV (Martinsburg) to offer fast bus service to a Harpers Ferry terminus. That $1.5m could pay for buses and some other transportation facilities - like a partial share of a daily Cardinal for instance.

mtuandrew wrote:As long as MARC isn't wedded to Martinsburg because of service facilities, it makes as much sense for WV (Martinsburg) to offer fast bus service to a Harpers Ferry terminus. That $1.5m could pay for buses and some other transportation facilities - like a partial share of a daily Cardinal for instance.

It's more of a storage yard for MARC. Maintenance shops on that line are Brunswick or Monocacy.