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• 2/26/13 – In praise of a reliable workout buddy (Washington Post)

  The CCT has its problems, not the least of which is that the currently unfunded Purple Line light rail would run right down the Georgetown Branch. Even if a proposed 12-foot-wide paved trail is built alongside it, I’d have to reserve judgment about using it. That would be a very different experience from running on crushed gravel beneath overhanging limbs.

• 2/12/13 – FCCT Urges State Lawmakers to Halt Purple Line Funding

  In light of recent developments concerning Maryland’s lack of a funding source for the Purple Line, Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail president Ajay Bhatt today urged the state’s legislative leadership to cease funding the project.

• 2/10/13 – Purple Line advocates in Maryland worry about losing momentum (Washington Post)

  Last week’s news that without additional tax revenue Maryland would halt design work on a light-rail line between Montgomery and Prince George’s counties has renewed fears that the proposed Purple Line might never make it off the drawing board.

• 2/7/13 – Purple Line Design Will Stop if Maryland Doesn’t Get More Transpo Funding (Transportation Nation)

  “The bottom line is, without a revenue increase, the state will simply not have the money to construct any new highway or transit projects,” says Cahalan. “That’s the reality.”

• 2/5/13 – Maryland House Minority Leader calls for delay of Red, Purple lines (Baltimore Business Journal)

  “We can’t shock the economy,” Anthony O’Donnell, R-St. Mary’s and Calvert counties, told the audience of several hundred businesspeople at the Renaissance Inner Harbor hotel. “The citizens are hurting. They can’t take any more tax increases.”

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