After-work cocktails are all fine and dandy on the evening commuter train, until they aren’t, according to MARC.
The commuter train service that shuttles workers between Baltimore and the suburbs of Maryland into D.C. sent its riders a gentle reminder on Thursday. The upshot: MARC trains are not party trains.
“We have seen an increase in the number of complaints about alcohol consumption on trains and disruptive behavior that has included loud talking, profanity, and in some cases, physical altercations that has been associated with drinking,” MARC Director John Hovatter wrote to riders on Thursday.
Drinking alcohol on the trains is allowed. But he added that the train service reserves the right to cut off unruly riders – and that local officials enforce drunken driving laws when the commuters totter off to the parking lots.
