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"Our over-reliance on cars and $4-per-gallon gasoline has led us to dig a really deep hole for ourselves. The Purple Line is the ladder that helps us climb up out of this hole toward the light of rational land use, friendly commutes and a stable climate." Mike Tidwell, director of CCAN |  |
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The CCT will be a far safer recreational trail alongside the Inner Purple Line than the existing Georgetown Branch Interim Trail. Every year nearly 700 cyclists and 5,000 pedestrians are struck and killed by motor vehicles. Contrast those numbers with the approximately 20 pedestrians or passengers fatalities caused by light-rail each year. (Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Fatalities by Mode) Any risk to future CCT users from transit vehicles is small compared to the risk trail users face today of being run over by motor vehicles on the Georgetown Branch Trail. Anti-transit advocates want us to ignore this risk. The Georgetown Branch Trail, which includes many dangerous crossings of major roadways, is dangerous. The trail is on roadways for two miles in Silver Spring, and has eight (8) street crossings at traffic lights, of which three (3) are six-lane state highways! Plans for the Inner Purple Line call for the CCT to be rebuilt as an uninterrupted off-road trail from downtown Bethesda to downtown Silver Spring, with grade-separated crossings on bridges or underpasses of all major roadways. Trail users will be separated from light-rail tracks by fences, retaining walls or plantings. |
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68,000 riders each weekday is huge! Counting down to completion of Purple Line DEIS; Latest news: Latest News; How you can help 
See: We need you to help keep the Purple Line a state and county priority. Write a letter, make a call or send an e-mail in support of the Purple Line today. See: Contact List |
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