Report: Cost of Purple Line Jumps Again
Lawmakers will mull ways to fund state transportation projects at a Wednesday summit, where the light rail project will be identified as "at risk."
The cost of building the Purple Line has jumped from $1.93 billion to $2.15 billion, marking the second price increase in the last two years, the Washington Examiner reports. The 16-mile light rail that will connect Bethesda and New Carrollton, recently hailed as one of he best transportation projects in the country, is planned to open in 2020. But Maryland has none of the $4.7 billion it needs to build the Purple Line and Baltimore’s Red Line, according to the report. If the Maryland Transit Administration is approved for the federal funds it’s hoping to secure from the Federal Transit Administration for the light rail projects, the money would only cover 40.6 percent of the Red Line and 46.8 percent of the Purple Line, according to the …
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Wayne Phyillaier
1:54 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
@Commentous: Your point is taken, everything is in competition with everything else at some level. My point is that at no point was the Wheaton project singled out to be cut so the money could be diverted to the Bethesda project. more ›