The companies overseeing construction of Maryland’s Purple Line have sued the state for breach of contract, seeking more than $100 million for its refusal to pay for delays and allegedly requiring the firms to “mask” delays in some project schedules.
The firms filed the lawsuit Tuesday as a counterclaim to one filed in August by the Maryland Transit Administration. The state is seeking more than $75 million in damages related to what it says is the firms’ illegal notice that they will leave the rail project over unpaid cost overruns.
The legal back-and-forth comes as the state and concessionaire, Purple Line Transit Partners, say they are still trying to reach a settlement over what PLTP has said are about $800 million in cost overruns stemming from more than 2 ½ years of construction delays.
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