Maryland Purple Line Update July 2021!

Today I am thrilled to finally bring you an overview of the future Maryland Purple Line! The Maryland Purple Line, it’s a 16.2 mile or 26.1 kilometer light rail line under construction, north of Washington, D.C. The line will have 21 stations, and it is being built by the State of Maryland. It will link the cities of Bethesda, Silver Spring, College Park, and New Carrollton as well as connect both branches of the Washington Metrorail Red line, the green line, and the Orange line. It will also link all three of MARC’s commuter rail lines and Amtrak’s northeast corridor. While this line is called the Purple line, it will be operationally separate from the Washington Metrorail system. And despite the setbacks that this project has faced, creating orbital transit lines that allow people to travel across a region without having to travel to an urban core to transfer lines is a trend that really needs to catch on in other parts of this country.

This video was filmed in late April, 2021, but little has changed along the project’s alignment. I was hoping to have a lot of drone footage in this video, as I do in my other construction overview videos, but as the entire Washington DC metro area is in a special no fly zone, that’s not going to happen. For this reason, this construction tour is going to jump around a little more than my other videos, but I will be using maps so hopefully it will all make sense.

Mark Peterson’s ride of the Georgetown Bike trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JToUilsz0kY&t=2s

Maryland Purple Line Website with tons of engineering docs: https://www.purplelinemd.com

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:15 Bethesda
6:25 Columbia Country Club
7:10 Connecticut Ave/Chevy Chase
9:41 Lyttonsville
11:52 16th St-Woodside
12:14 Silver Spring
14:30 Silver Spring Library
15:40 Dale Drive
16:51 Manchester Place
18:03 Long Branch
19:33 Piney Branch Road
20:59 Takoma Langley Crossroads
21:50 Riggs Road
23:04 Adelphi Road-UMGC-UMD
24:51 Campus Dr-UMD
26:55 Baltimore Avenue-College Park-UMD
28:44 College Park Metro-UMD
30:43 Riverdale North-UMD
32:38 Riverdale Park-Kenilworth
34:54 Beacon Heights-East Pines
38:05 Maintenance Facility
39:39 Glenridge
41:01 New Carrollton
43:12 Outro

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