Squeezing a train through neighborhoods just feet from homes creates some issues during construction, but when the Purple Line is complete between New Carrollton and Bethesda, it promises significantly faster and more accessible trips for thousands of people in the region.
Nearly a year after a groundbreaking that had been held up by a lawsuit, hundreds of workers were spread across the length of the approximately $2 billion 16-mile project that will connect New Carrollton, College Park, Silver Spring and Bethesda by 2022. A majority of the 21 stops are from the University of Maryland through Silver Spring.
In Silver Spring, purple construction sound walls behind a Giant grocery store shielded a group of row houses from work just a few yards away from their front doors. Crews are working on a tunnel there in what will be the middle of the line.
“We’ve got to drill through rock and earth right underneath the neighborhood for about a third of a mile,” Purple Line Transit Partners spokesman John Undeland said as construction vehicles moved back and forth on the site.
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