LOOK: Drawings for Manchester Place Purple Line Station

The Silver Spring Transit Center station for the Purple Line, a 16-mile light rail that will connect Bethesda to New Carrollton, will be up to 85 feet above ground, state officials said. Now, new renderings are available for the Manchester Place station in Silver Spring, which will be an entirely different concept: totally underground.

Neighbors of the Dale Drive and Manchester Place stations were updated on the Maryland Transit Administration's plans for the two stations Monday. The Dale Drive station will be a typical at ground-level station. (See renderings of both attached to this article.) 

There will be eight stations in the Silver Spring area: Lyttonsville, Woodside/16th Street, Silver Spring Transit Center, Silver Spring Library, Dale Drive, Manchester Place, Long Branch, Piney Branch Road. 

The $2.2 billion project is currently wrapping up preliminary engineering plans and a final envinronmental impact statement, both of which should be complete this summer. 

With proper funding, construction would begin in 2015 with the opening of the system in 2020. Currently, federal and state governments are splitting the cost of the Purple Line evenly, although money from Montgomery and Prince George's Counties could be required in the future.