WASHINGTON — Maryland's Purple Line may have taken a turn for the better. A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday threw out portions of a lawsuit that had blocked progress on the program since August 2016, the Washington Post reported. The P...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/05/31-purple-line
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
2.4 Billion? for 14 miles ?
CandOforprogress22.4 Billion? for 14 miles ?
It isn't being constructed over corn fields and other low cost properties.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
No its being contructed using a existing rail-banked right of way aka the B&O Georgetown Branch
CandOforprogress2No its being contructed using a existing rail-banked right of way aka the B&O Georgetown Branch
Property values don't get much higher than Georgetown. I doubt that the branch was rail banked, my understanding was that it was abandoned and property rights returned to the owners.
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