New Renderings Unveiled For Bethesda Purple Line Station
Station at Wisconsin and Elm Street will be built in conjunction with Red Line Metro south entrance.
Maryland Transit Administration officials on Tuesday unveiled new renderings for the Bethesda station on the Purple Line, a 16-mile light rail planned to connect Bethesda with New Carrollton. The new designs include a five to seven foot sidewalk alongside the light rail through the Wisconsin Avenue tunnel. The sidewalk option was developed after Montgomery County Council members determined it would be too expensive and too risky to route the Capital Crescent Trail above the light rail inside the tunnel. Instead, council members chose to support an option to route the trail at grade across Wisconsin Avenue. “I know it’s a disappointment to people but I think the sidewalk at least gives them an option,” said Mike Madden, MTA Purple Line …
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Steve O
3:28 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
Of course cyclists will ride through. Not when it's crowded with peds and transit riders, but late at night and Sunday mornings and anytime there is enough space to do so. Any officials who think otherwise are fooling themselves. The trail can be built (as promised) if more creative thinking is used. See my posts on this topic here: http://ht.ly/gwmCu more ›