VIDEO: Purple Line Competes With Trail in Bethesda Tunnel Debate
Users of the Capital Crescent Trail disagree on what should go through the Bethesda tunnel: the Purple Line or the trail.
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Patch reporter Evelyn Rabil staked out the Bethesda tunnel beneath Wisconsin
Avenue on a sunny weekend in March and counted close to 500 hikers, bikers,
walkers and joggers passing through on the Capital Crescent Trail in a three-hour
span. Opinions varied among the trail's users on whether the Purple Line is worth
displacing several miles of the trail to track the train through the tunnel.
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Speak out: Do you think the Purple Line or the trail should run through the Bethesda tunnel?
JTS53
7:59 am on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Common sense dictates that bikers & runners can be re-routed. The tunnel is the only viable route for the Purple Line. Even the young lady runner agreed that she would sacrifice the tunnel to the Metro because we need better public transit.
BD
11:22 am on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
To Mr. Sears in the video, I think the folks in Baltimore and the I-270 corridor (both advocating for their own rail projects) might disagree with your assertion that the PL is the most important transportation project for Maryland.
Anne Goodwin
4:27 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Common sense dictates to me that the Purple Line is light rail and not part of the Metro system; that commuters can take commuter buses that are provided; that this light rail is a complete waste of money and will be a money-losing endeavor; and finally, that the money simply is not in the coffers for such a system.....except maybe in the mind and planning of developers who stand to make big bucks from it. Better public transit for whom?