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The Purple Line Can Enhance Life in East
Silver Spring
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 | The Purple Line will carry between 42,000 and 45,000
riders each weekday -- well above average for existing and
proposed U.S. light rail projects. |
| It will improve travel times for Silver Spring residents
– especially as traffic steadily worsens all across our
region:
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| Travel from downtown Silver Spring to downtown Bethesda
will take only 9 minutes.*
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| Travel time will also be reduced significantly to the
University of Maryland and New Carrollton.* |
| Let's use it as an opportunity to create a new,
pedestrian-friendly Wayne Avenue and throughout our
neighborhoods.
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** MTA “Medium Investment LRT” option,
12/07 |
Light rail trains are
quiet and pollution-free. They will travel along Wayne
at posted speed limits -- not racing like many cars do
today. Light rail transit lines have operated across the
US and around the world in attractive residential
neighborhoods for a century or more.
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| Paris showed how to do it – The
new T-3 line is revitalizing a corridor with new bike paths,
trees, sidewalks, crosswalks and lighting. |
Media, PA, as shown here, has nearly
100 years’ successful experience with light rail.
Boston, Portland, Denver and LA are other examples. |
How Can We Make Wayne
Avenue a 21st-Century Boulevard?
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By ensuring that a
well-designed Purple Line is built soon!
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Who are we?
We are Silver Spring residents who see the Purple Line as a
way to protect our quality of life. We come from these
neighborhoods: Seven Oaks-Evanswood, Park Hills, East Silver
Spring, Indian Spring, South Silver Spring, Woodside, North
Woodside, Woodside Park, and other neighborhoods of the
downtown area.
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