Save the Trail!

Nearly 400 runners reported to Elm Street Park in the Town of Chevy Chase to run (or walk) a 5-kilometer course along the Capital Crescent Trail.
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In the News...

  • 1/26/12 – Maryland releases list of properties condemned by Purple Line (Wash Post)

    The spreadsheet lists about 500 parcels, including about 170 that would be condemned temporarily during construction before being restored and returned to the owner, said Henry Kay, head of project development for the Maryland Transit Administration.

  • 1/18/12 – Capital Crescent Trail a treasure to be preserved (MoCo Gazette)

    This trail has everything I need and I know I am not alone in that feeling. It provides quiet time amidst the trees — a protected green space in the heart of our busy and stressful county. The trail is perfect, except for one thing. It will soon be drastically changed if business interests that want to develop Chevy Chase Lake have their way.

  • 1/12/12 Purple Line would affect 342 properties, Md. says (Washington Post)

    “It creates a lot of hysteria for people, who naturally are very concerned,” said Montgomery County Council member Valerie Ervin (D-Silver Spring), whose district is in part of the proposed route. “We don’t have any information to say these homes on this street are going to be taken. They should tell people as soon as possible so people can make decisions.”

  • 12/29/11 – O’Malley announces $69 million in Purple Line spending (Washington Examiner)

    The Purple Line’s rising price tag — officials estimated the project would cost $1.5 billion two years ago — has critics second-guessing the need to spend millions of dollars in state funds on a rail project that will require millions more in federal funding to complete. “The state needs to look at their priorities,” said Ajay Bhatt, president of the Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail, a group that opposes the light rail. “They’re basically throwing money away over the next two years on a project that they can’t afford.”
    Some local officials, including Chevy Chase Councilwoman Patricia Burda, would prefer an express bus line, an option she said comes with a more realistic price tag. “With all the projects that are on the table right now, and the state of the state and the counties’ finances, this seems like it’s good money after bad,” Burda said.

  • 11/18/11 – Montgomery planners seeks ways to keep trail inside tunnel when Purple Line is built (Washington Post)

    “The state and county have always known this would be an engineering feat of no small measure, and they knew it would be more expensive,” said Patricia Burda, a Town of Chevy Chase council member. Keeping the trail in the tunnel “has been a long-term commitment to the community,” she added.