After a two-year pause when the original contractor backed out, work is resuming on building the 16.2-mile-long Purple Line light-rail project.
With a new contractor in place, Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld said his agency is putting the pressure on new builders, Maryland Transit Solutions, to complete the line. However, he said he doesn’t “have a lot of faith” that an October 2026 completion is possible.
“It has a ways to go. I’m not going to sugarcoat it for people; it’s just a reality,” Wiedefeld said.
The east-west line that will eventually connect New Carrollton and Bethesda, Maryland, was originally expected to be completed in March 2022; but the first contractor backed out of the project in 2020.
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