Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:56:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Baltington?  Washimore?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

"Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

> Significantly, when Baltimore designed its subway it did so with an
> eye to making it fully compatible with DC's Metro, and the lines will
> eventually link -- either in Columbia, or, equally likely, at BWI.

Sure.  Just a few decades after the first permanent manned base on
Mars is established.  Perhaps my grandchildren will live to see it.
Haven't you noticed how slowly Metro grows?

Perhaps then it will make sense to regard DC and Baltimore as one
city.  But not today.

> Both areas have distinct identities, but they've been closely linked
> ever since the Baltimore-Washington Parkway Expressway Redundancy
> opened in the mid-'50s (and all the more so since I-95).

I don't know when they were first linked by road or by railroad, but
both probably go back at least 150 years.  That doesn't meake them
one city.

The distance between our Virginia and Maryland meeting places is far
shorter, and is far better linked by both road and by transit, but
about half the people who go to our Virginia meetings (inlcuding you)
almost never go to our Maryland meetings, and vice versa.

And how many people go to both WSFA and BSFS meetings?  Just one, as
far as I know.

Plenty of WSFAns go to Balticon, but these are people who tend to go
to other out-of-town cons, too.