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Metropolitan area in terms of mobility. The subway trains serve basically a suburb-to- city purpose to/from Maryland and Virginia to/from downtown District of Columbia. So the Purple Line connector will fill a gap as the beginning of what someday could be- come a “circle line” involving Virginia as well. Ridership projections are encouraging. The population and employment centers are there to support it.
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After this 26-year debate, just as all the stakeholders have finally given the plan the green light, in steps the “Desert Rat” lobby, whose apparent definition of “progress” stops just short of consigning the human race to a lifetime of freezing in the dark. The “victim:” Those who champion crea- tures before people have found a rare shrim- plike creature in Rock Creek Park in D.C., downstream from where the Purple Line would cross the park in Montgomery Coun- ty. “Activists,” possibly with too much time on their hands, have said the required envi- ronmental study overlooked this “endan- gered species.” John M. Fitzgerald, a resident of the tony community of Chevy Chase and a trial lawyer (what else?) is quoted in the Wash- ington Post as “contemplating a lawsuit “to require the Maryland Transit Administra- tion to consider a light-rail line’s impact on the animal.”
A state transit official says the light-rail line would have relatively little effect on streams and wildlife because the trains would run along local roads in areas that are already heavily developed. Purple line sup- porters say whatever benefits there are from obscure creatures pale in comparison with the transit service’s overall environmental credentials,including reduced emissions, re- ducing sprawl, and so on.
Maglev?
Last month I listed the hindrances to any early implementation of the Maglev technol- ogy for HSR. Others have raised similar con- cerns for years. The barriers to that 300 m.p.h. conveyance (D.C. to N.Y. in one hour or less) have not deterred high-profile for- mer U.S. politicians and Japanese investors from gambling on such uncertain prospects. Northeast Maglev’s advisory board is headed by former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, and includes former Transportation secretaries Rodney Slater (D) and Mary Peters (R); former Governors Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) and Christine Todd Whit- man (R-N.J.). Maglev currently operates above the rails on a few (mostly short) lines in Asia.
Wes Vernon is a Washington-based writer and veteran broadcast journalist.
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