Purple Line Passes Important Test
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Friday, June 19, 2009; 5:41 PM
The Washington region's Transportation Planning Board, which has to pass on any big project that wants to compete for federal funds, signed off on the Purple Line transitway this afternoon. The resolution to add the entire Purple Line project to the region's Constrained Long Range Plan passed unanimously. This is a major and necessary step for the project, which would provide an important new east-west transit connection for tens of thousands of people. But there are many steps to come before the Purple Line could start running late in the next decade, and many of those steps will rank as "major." Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley still needs to approve the proposal, which almost certainly will call for a light rail line rather than a bus rapid transit system, then the state must apply to the federal government for New Start money. The federal standards for approving transit projects are much
