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Save The Trail Petition
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Please Send an Email Now!

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Please Send Letters to the Addresses Below:

Personal Postal Letters are ideal,
but if pressed for time, you can send one Email
with all the addresses copied and pasted into it.

 

To:  Governor Martin O’Malley

100 State Circle

Annapolis, MD 21401

<governor@gov.state.md.us>

 

To:  County Executive Ike Leggett

Executive Office Building
101 Monroe Street, 2nd Floor
Rockville, MD 20850

<Ike.Leggett@montgomerycountymd.gov>

 

To:  Chairman Hanson and Board Members
Montgomery County Planning Board
8787 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
MCP-Chairman@mncppc-mc.org

 

To:  Council President Knapp and Councilmembers

Stella B. Werner Council Office Building
100 Maryland Avenue
Rockville, MD 20850

<county.council@montgomerycountymd.gov>

To:  County Councilmember Roger Berliner

Stella B. Werner Council Office Building
100 Maryland Avenue
Rockville, MD 20850

<councilmember.berliner@montgomerycountymd.gov>

 

Please Forward a Copy or Send a Blind Copy to:
 

BCC:  <pbrow@verizon.net>

(Please send a blind copy (or forward a copy) to us so we know how many emails are sent.)

 

Sample Letter

(Your own words will count much more than a form letter.  So if you have the time, please write a personal letter.   If you don't have time, a form letter is much, much better than no letter at all.  Thank you! )

Re: Do NOT build the Purple Line along the Trail!  

 

Dear: Governor Martin O’Malley,

          County Executive Isiah Leggett,

          Chairman Royce Hanson,

          Council President Mike Knapp,

 

I am a Trail user.  [Describe how you use the Capital Crescent Trail between Bethesda and Silver Spring for commuting, or with friends and family, why it’s important to you, why it is important for the environment, etc.] 

More than 10,000 hikers and bikers use the Capital Crescent Trail between Bethesda and Silver Spring every week.  By the year 2030 (the year for which MTA's Purple Line Ridership estimates are projected), all of our Trails will be dangerously overcrowded.  

Currently, Trail users of all ages walk and bike on the Trail.  It will not be safe to have high speed bikers, dog walkers, families with small children, and the elderly, strolling and biking, passing in two directions, within a 10' wide sidewalk, about 10' from trains passing by every three minutes.

I urge you to build the Purple Line somewhere other than along the Capital Crescent Trail. 

All of the beautiful trees that currently shade the Trail would be bulldozed -- to level the narrow berm that the Trail runs on now -- in order to squeeze in the two sets of tracks for a Purple Line. 

I, along with thousands of other Trail users, would be distressed to see this natural Trail degraded and the surrounding mature forest destroyed for a light rail Purple Line.

I urge you to seek transit solutions that preserve our quality of life and protect our valuable environmental resources – including our mature trees and natural trails – by putting the Purple Line either underground or in another location.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Your Name

Your Address

 

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