Save the Trail Petition

Save the Trail Coalition

Preserve the Beauty and Safety of the Capital Crescent Trail!

URGENT! SEND: AN EMAIL NOW!

SIGN: The On-Line Petition

SEE: More PHOTOS of the Trail

The Purple Line will Bulldoze the Trail and all the Surrounding Trees and Put Two Tracks of Trains Just 10' From the new "trail"!



Photo: Trail users of all ages and abilities use the Capital Cresent Trail between Bethesda and Silver Spring. September 2008
Light Rail Kills Two Teens Near Baltimore Pedestrian Railway Deaths Recurring Problem -- Average 9 Deaths per yr. in Maryland Testimony before COG Transportation Planning Board, May 20 and June 17, 2009 Maryland Life Feature Story: "Happy Trails -- Maryland's Capital Crescent Trail" Greenspace Design - Community Planning in the Public Interest with green corridors PHOTOS: 500 Trail Supporters Turn Out for "No Rail on the Trail" 10 K and GUIDED WALK Excerpts from 1,500 Emails to Gov. O'Malley Washington Post: "Proposed Purple Line Route Has Trail Users Seeing Red" Gazette: "Purple Line Protesters Hold Race and Walk on Crescent Trail" Purple Line Impacts on the Capital Crescent Trail County Council Votes to Study Single Tracked Purple Line because of Impacts to Trail Recent Letters to the Editor American Forests' Analysis: 17 Acres of Trees Will be Destroyed by Purple Line along Trail World Resource Institute Finds Enhanced Buses Better than Light Rail for Purple Line and the Environment MTA Used Incorrect Data according to National Naval Medical Center Resulting in Biased Study 17,500 Petition Signatures Testimony at MTA Environmental Impact Hearings Gazette: "Purple Line Would Bring Development Like Kings Farm" Washington Post: "Purple Line Follows Path of Discord" Washington Post: "Purple Line to Require Demolition, Sound Walls" Delegate Al Carr Rides Cleveland's new BRT Councilmember Marc Elrich blogs about BRT Capital Crescent Trail Survey: Over 10,000 Uses Weekly between Bethesda and Silver Spring Save the Trail for Health - by Ken Harris "Re-Thinking the Purple Line" -- a new Coalition Petition Signers -- Just NIMBYS? PHOTOS of the Capital Crescent Trail CCT Tunnel in Bethesda Threatened by Purple Line May 31st Trail Event and Photos BRAC and the Purple Line Loop MTA's Purple Line Options -- Routes and Modes Chevy Chase Retains Law Firm for Purple Line Fight Petition Signers Spammed by ACT Purple Line Ridership Announced YOU can help! Take Action!

More than 18,000 Signatures Gathered!

PETITION

Save the Capital Crescent Trail and Trees between Bethesda and Silver Spring:

"We, the undersigned, oppose running

the Purple Line transitway along the Trail

between Bethesda and Silver Spring.

We want to preserve this irreplaceable greenspace, the beautiful mature trees, and

the tranquil Trail, for generations to come.

Please build the Purple Line in

another location or tunneled underground."

Photo: MTA's Light Rail in Baltimore.

MTA is proposing to bulldoze the Capital

Crescent Trail and the surrounding trees

and put in two tracks of light rail trains --

about 10' feet from the new "Trail".

Photo: Irreplaceabale Beech and Sycamore

Trees on the Capital Crescent Trail

between Bethesda and Silver Spring.

November 2008

Photo: It gets crowded on the Trail

between Bethesda and Silver Spring.

November 2008

Petition Signers Were Spammed by Action Committee for Transit:

Signers of the Petition to Save the Trail were spammed by Richard Hoye, Vice President of the Action Committee for Transit (ACT). Hoye copied the petitions that were submitted to the County Council and continues to send out unsoliticted emails to the signers-- with claims that ACT supports the Trail.

BUT, IN FACT, THE ACTION COMMITTEE FOR TRANSIT OPPOSED THE OPENING OF THE TRAIL, THE OPENING OF THE TUNNEL, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TRESTLE.

ACT's primary goal is the construction of the LIGHT RAIL along the Capital Crescent Trail between Bethesda and Silver Spring, regardless of the damage it will do to the Trail. They oppose consideration of transit either underground or along the Beltway.