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PURPLE LINE
Open Houses to Offer Information
The Maryland Transit Administration has scheduled five open houses, the first for tonight, to share its latest findings from a study about where a Purple Line transit link would run and whether it should be a light rail or rapid bus line.
Michael D. Madden, project manager of the study, said it was determined recently that the 16-mile line between New Carrollton and Bethesda would have 20,000 more daily boardings than estimated. The new estimates range from 37,000 daily boardings for the cheapest rapid bus system to as much as 68,000 for the most expensive light rail system.
Madden said earlier figures hadn't properly accounted for the number of Metro and MARC train riders who would use the transit link.
Also to be provided are better estimates of travel times between the potential 22 stops and the numbers of projected boardings at them.
The open houses are scheduled today, from 5 to 8 p.m., at College Park City Hall, 4500 Knox Rd., in College Park; Monday from 5 to 8 p.m. at West Lanham Hills Recreation Center, 7700 Decatur Rd., in Landover Hills; Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at East Silver Spring Elementary School, 631 Silver Spring Ave., in Silver Spring; next Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School cafeteria, 4301 East-West Hwy.; and May 21 from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at Langley Park Community Center, 1500 Merrimac Dr. in Hyattsville. Information from the meetings will be available at http:/
-- Katherine Shaver
