| The local business interests of Bethesda and | | | | in the busy metro and train hub of New |
| Chevy Chase and other parties like the local | | | | Carrollton from where you can even take the |
| politician Steve Silverman have been pushing | | | | Amtrak to Philly and New York City.I can |
| for this new metro line for years, arguing it | | | | imagine a college student renting an |
| will bring new business and vitality to the | | | | affordable efficiency in Silver Spring and |
| area and relieve the already congested | | | | then hopping on the Purple Line and catching |
| Capital Beltway (495).The detractors of the | | | | that first class early in the morning at |
| idea including some local well-to-do | | | | University of MD.The Purple will also connect |
| residents and local politicians like Ike | | | | to the Green Line at College Park, with the |
| Leggett resist the plan arguing it will | | | | Red Line in Bethesda, and Orange Line at |
| increase the commercial traffic trough some | | | | Silver Spring. Thus through these connections |
| choice neighborhoods and create new urban | | | | you can travel as far down south as the |
| problems rather than solve them.It is the | | | | Reagan Airport.I think the Purple Line would |
| classic tug of war between the | | | | be an exciting and much needed addition to |
| pro-development and pro-status-quo groups.The | | | | the Capital region's already exhausted |
| Purple Line looks good on paper indeed, | | | | transportation network.With thousands of new |
| connecting the high-income Bethesda and Chevy | | | | residents flocking to this economically |
| Chase with the rapidly gentrifying Silver | | | | exploding metropolitan area, what we need is |
| Spring, arching over to the University of | | | | more and not less public transportation |
| Maryland College Park campus and terminating | | | | alternatives. |