Route 21 (MTA Maryland)

Route 21
Overview
System	Maryland Transit Administration
Garage	Eastern
Status	active
Began service	1938
Route
Locale	Baltimore City
Communities served	Sandtown-Winchester Upton
Landmarks served	Johns Hopkins Hospital Sojourner Douglas College
Other routes	1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 27, 30, 35, 36, qb40, qb46, qb47, qb48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 61, 64, 91, 97
Service
Level	Daily
Frequency	Every 30 minutes Every 20 minutes (peak)
Weekend frequency	Every 60 minutes
Operates	5:00 am to 1:00 am [1]

Route 21 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in Baltimore. The line currently runs from the Mondawmin Metro Subway Station to Fells Point, serving the corridors of Gilmor Street, Preston/Biddle Streets, and Caroline Street, and the communities of Sandtown-Winchester, Mt. Royal, and Butcher's Hill. The bus route is the successor to the 21 Preston Street–Caroline Street and Dolphin Street streetcar lines.

Route 21 was electrified in 1895 as a streetcar line along Preston and Caroline Streets. In 1938, the line was converted to a rubber tire bus service.^[2]

In 1957, the line was extended along Carey Street to the current loop at Cumberland and Carey Streets. The line did not have any routing changes until February 8, 2009, when it was extended north to the Mondawmin Metro Subway Station along Pennsylvania Avenue.^[3]

• 1929 Baltimore Streetcar map, provided by Baltimore Streetcar Museum