Advocates Form Coalition To Push For Purple Line Funds
'Get Maryland Moving' is calling on the Maryland General Assembly to fund state transportation projects.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Advocates Form Coalition To Push For Purple Line Funds
'Get Maryland Moving' is calling on the Maryland General Assembly to fund state transportation projects.
A new coalition is advocating for dollars for state transportation projects, including the planned 16-mile Purple Line light rail that would connect Bethesda with New Carrollton, The Washington Post reports. Get Maryland Moving, a coalition of groups, including the Montgomery County and Bethesda-Chevy Chase chambers of commerce, Purple Line Now, Action Committee for Transit, and the League of Women Voters of Maryland, is pushing for state legislators to make new revenue for transportation projects a top priority this legislative session, according to the group’s website. Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Dist. 27) of Chesapeake Beach has proposed a 3-cent gas tax that would raise about $300 million for transportation …
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Without New Funding Source, Purple Line, CCT Could Be 'Put On Hold'
Montgomery County officials are blasting a state transportation funding plan that calls for re-allocating money earmarked for the two projects if lawmakers can't drum up more funds.
Members of the Montgomery County Council are urging state transportation officials against delaying funding for the Purple Line and the Corridor Cities Transitway. Lawmakers in Annapolis are struggling with ways to fund state transportation projects, including the 16-mile Purple Line light rail that would connect Bethesda with New Carrollton and the upcounty bus rapid transit route. Maryland Senate president Thomas V. Mike Miller has proposed a 3 percent gas tax that would raise about $300 million for transportation projects, Patch reported. But without a funding increase, a state transportation funding plan calls for re-allocating the money earmarked for the two projects and Baltimore’s Red Line within the Maryland Transit Administration’…
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Jersey GIrl
5:12 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
If Maryland can NOT balance it budget it should NOT spend money that it does NOT have! Once you take away green space it is gone FOREVER! The Capital Crescent Trail is packed with bikes, mothers and children, dog walkers, the elderly.....It is almost too crowded on a nice day! You can NOT relocate a wooded trail!!! If they build the purple line they will cut down trees on either side of the rail … more ›
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Top Maryland House Republican Calls For Purple Line Delay
“The citizens are hurting. They can’t take any more tax increases," believes Maryland House Minority Leader Anthony O'Donnell, reports the Baltimore Business Journal.
Maryland House Minority Leader Anthony O'Donnell has called for a delay in the Purple Line and Baltimore's Red Line, saying proposed tax increases to fund the light rail projects would be too costly for taxpayers, the Baltimore Business Journal reports. In Annapolis this legislative session, lawmakers are grappling with ways to fund the Purple Line, Red Line and other transportation projects. Maryland Senate President Mike Miller has proposed a 3 percent gas tax that would raise up to $300 million for transportation, and jurisdictions would be able to tack on another 5 cents per gallon to pay for local transportation projects, Patch reported. O’Donnell, R-St. Mary’s and Calvert counties, said the Purple and Red Line projects should be put…
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Joe Galvagna
6:50 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
Stop stop no more stupid spending no more taxes please vote this wasteful spending down and these ignorant Dens out. Our state our country is in a free fall we need some real leadership starting at the top in the whitehouse. Wake up people you can only squeeze so much out of the working people to pay for the freeloaders. We need to fight back to stop all these give aways. You intitlement bums get… more ›
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Top Headlines: Magruder's Closing, 'Pimp on the Pike', Speed Camera Controversy
Catch up on headlines this week from across Montgomery County.
A 130-year-old local grocery chain is closing up shop; a North Potomac resident nicknamed "The Turbanator" advances to the next round of American Idol; and Montgomery County councilmembers pledge to increase police presence in schools. These are just a few of the stories Patch reported this week. Get caught up on top headlines here. Magruder's Closing All Locations GAITHERSBURG—Magruder's is closing all four of its supermarkets, including Montgomery County's Gaithersburg and Rockville locations, but they may re-open under new ownership in the future. Read more on Gaithersburg Patch. Man Guilty of Running Prostitution Ring from Rockville Pike Hotel ROCKVILLE—He’s been dubbed “The Pimp on the Pike.” Now, Nahshon Kornegay, 31, of District …
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County Council Recap: Gun Control Resolution Introduced, Purple Line Projects Delayed
Notable outcomes include passing a resolution on tighter gun restrictions, delaying funding for county transportation projects, and a denied school board request for additional funding.
The Montgomery County Council met Tuesday for its first session of 2013. Notable outcomes from the meeting include: Council Introduces Resolution To Promote Tighter Gun Restrictions The Montgomery County Council introduced a resolution Tuesday urging Gov. Martin O'Malley and state lawmakers to tighten restrictions on gun and ammunition sales. The resolution, Germantown Patch reported, asks state leaders to: "The proposals, introduced by Council President Nancy Navarro (D-East County), mirror many of the laws that Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and others in the state legislature will attempt to pass during the General Assembly" since the county lacks authority to regulate the sale or possession of firearms under state law, BethesdaNow.com …
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Top Headlines: Alleged Aspen Hill Park Shooter Charged, Bethesda Purple Line Station Renderings Unveiled, More
Catch up on the top news in Montgomery County this week.
Report: Study Shows ICC Speed Limit Can Safely Increase To 60 MPH GAITHERSBURG—An engineering study of the ICC has concluded that the speed of the highway can safely be raised to 60 mph, pending an analysis of crash data. Read more on Gaithersburg Patch. Montgomery Village Man Killed In Gaithersburg Crash GAITHERSBURG—A 21-year-old Montgomery Village man was killed early Sunday in the collision of his Honda Civic and another car on Snouffer School Road in Gaithersburg. Read more at Gaithersburg Patch. New Renderings Unveiled For Bethesda Purple Line Station BETHESDA -- Maryland Transit Administration officials unveiled new renderings Tuesday for the Bethesda station on the planned Purple Line. Funding for the 16-mile light rail line …
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Michael Josef Basl
5:40 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012
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Friday, July 20, 2012
MTA Launches Purple Line Facebook Page
"Like" the page for Purple Line information in your Facebook news feed.
The Maryland Transit Administration has launched a Facebook page focused on the Purple Line, a planned 16-mile light rail that will connect Bethesda and New Carrollton. The controversial project has drawn fire in the Bethesda and Chevy Chase communities from some advocates for the Capital Crescent Trail, along which a portion of the line is set to be built. The Facebook page, launched by MTA’s community outreach staff, will highlight upcoming meetings and events, maps, information and news articles, according to MTA. The public also is invited to weigh in with their questions and comments. Dubbed "Maryland Purple Line," the page had 140 "likes" as of Thursday afternoon. “Like” the page for Purple Line updates in your Facebook news feed.
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Purple Line Project Receives FTA Approval
The Federal Transit Administration gave the Purple Line project approval to enter the preliminary engineering phase, clearing the way for construction on the light rail to begin as early as 2015.
The Purple Line project received approval last Friday from the Federal Transit Administration to enter the preliminary engineering phase, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced last Friday. With FTA approval, plans for the Purple Line—the 16-mile light rail planned to connect Bethesda and New Carrollton with 19 station stops in-between—can become more detailed, work schedules and cost estimates can be drawn up, and environmental studies can be completed. The FTA review of the Purple Line proposal focused on the project’s projected "high daily ridership [with an average of 60,000 riders a day by 2030] and many significant benefits," as well as Maryland ’s "financial commitment and technical capacity to build and operate the project. By granting …
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Ddad99
8:57 am on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The Purple Line is a sad joke of an investment. $2B in borrowed money to build something that few people will ride, that there is no money to maintain, that will require subsidies for the life of the project. The only way it makes sense is to give politicians like OMalley an ego boost. Why not name it the OMalley Purple Line? Bottom line: there is no ROI for this investment, either in direct $ or… more ›
Monday, October 3, 2011
Purple Line Rail Yard Slated for Lyttonsville
Community members of Lyttonsville, in Silver Spring, are concerned about the construction of a rail yard and maintenance facility in a residential neighborhood.
Community criticism for the Purple Line continues this week, as Purple Line officials with the Maryland Transit Administration meet with residents of Lyttonsville, a historic community in Silver Spring, on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Coffield Community Center (2450 Lyttonsville Rd., second floor, Silver Spring) to discuss plans to construct a rail yard and maintenance facility in the neighborhood. "MTA presented major rail yard design changes to the community at a meeting on Sept. 13, surprising many who thought they were there to provide Lyttonsville station design preferences," wrote Susan Buchanan of the Lyttonsville Civic Association in a press release. "Instead, residents learned that the rail yard and maintenance facility had been 'super…
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leonor
3:49 pm on Tuesday, October 11, 2011
This will be a disaster for anyone living in the vicinity of Lyttonsville. It has been a huge bait and switch. And NO guarantee that the CCT will ever be built. These MTA folks have NEVER been on the trail. Mike Madden said, "We don't know what is there." PLEASE, write to you local officials on the County Council (Montgomery and Prince George's) they may say they have no control over this … more ›
Bastante
4:50 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
NOT SO! The D5 goes through the western Bethesda suburbs into Georgetown (not sure where it goes from there) and it is widely used by the khaki-and-polo-shirt crowd. I see plenty of people at the D5 stops every morning and evening. Similarly, the Ride-on that goes to Friendship Heights. more ›