Maryland’s Purple Line is not scheduled to open until 2026, but the project is already leading to concerns about gentrification around stations.
A new study from the public-private group “Purple Line Corridor Coalition” focused on ways to potentially avoid that from happening.
“Historically, transit investments of this scale have been transformative for the people and places that surround them, but these transformations have often been at the expense of residents and businesses with less economic and political power,” according to the study.
The Purple Line Corridor Coalition has been working for years to organize around “equitable outcomes” for the Purple Line corridor.
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