<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">Planning for a new airport on 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) to serve the Baltimore&ndash;Washington area began just before the end of World War II. In 1944, the Baltimore Aviation Commission announced its decision that the best location to build a new airport would be on a 2,100-acre (850 ha) tract of land near Linthicum Heights. The cost of building the airport was estimated at $9 million. The site was chosen because it was a 15-minute drive from downtown Baltimore; close to the Pennsylvania Railroad line, the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad line and the proposed Baltimore&ndash;Washington Parkway; and visibility was generally good. An alternate site along Gov. Ritchie Highway at Furnace Branch was rejected by the United States War Department, and another possible site at Lipin's Corner was deemed too far from Baltimore. The State Aviation Commission approved of the Linthicum Heights site in 1946. Much of the land was purchased from Friendship Methodist Church in 1946, and ground was broken on May 2, 1947. Friendship Methodist Church held its last service on Easter Sunday in 1948. Friendship Methodist Church was razed to make room for the new airport. In addition, several pieces of land were bought, and 170 bodies buried in a cemetery were moved. Baltimore&ndash;Fort Meade Road was moved to the west to make way for the airport's construction.</p>
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<h2 class="blog-hed2 my-4">Ground transportation Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">BWI is located at the southeast terminus of Interstate 195, a spur route providing connections to the Baltimore&ndash;Washington Parkway and Interstate 95.</p>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">BWI was ranked one of the "Top 10 Easiest U.S. Airports to Get to" by Aviation.com in 2007 and has a light rail station located just outside its main terminal.</p>
<p class="blog-para pb-lg-2">Passenger van service to and from the Eastern Shore and Western Maryland is available through BayRunner Shuttle better source needed with services to and from BWI to Kent Island, Easton, Cambridge, Salisbury, Ocean Pines, and Ocean City (for the Eastern Shore) and Grantsville, Frostburg, Cumberland, Hancock, Hagerstown, and Frederick (for Western Maryland). There are also numerous private car, rental car, and cab services, as well as shuttles that go to and from BWI to local hotels; Baltimore and Washington and their suburbs; and Central and Western Maryland.</p>
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