Save the Trail!

The Save the Trail 5K will be held Saturday, May 26th at Elm Street Park. Come out and support the trail! Click here for more details.
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In the News...

  • 2/16/12 – “What List?” Prompts Purple Line Concerns

    2/16/12 “What List?” Prompts Purple Line Concerns The Washington Post today reports that many Montgomery and Prince George’s County residents are angry that state transportation officials are actively suppressing opposition to the planned Purple Line by failing to provide updates on the hundreds of properties that the light rail project may condemn. The state claims [...]

  • 2/8/12 – “Now I know I was wrong.” A former Purple Line supporter speaks.

    I have discovered that for many years I have been wrong about what could happen in my own backyard. The Purple Line, a light rail track is planned, which would eliminate the eco-friendly biking/hiking trail behind my condo building. I believed, for the public good, the “evidence” that building the light rail was the right thing to do, but now I know I was wrong.

  • 2/7/12 – The Purple Line, Greenhouse Gases and the Environment

    The Purple Line as planned is “green” in name only, as the net increase in the world’s major greenhouse gas – CO2 – is over 22,000 metric tons a year. To put it this real terms, that’s equivalent to adding 3,900 automobiles on the road for an entire year.

  • 2/2/12 – Pols magic act… disappearing trails!

    Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett eliminated funding for the planned Metropolitan Branch Trail between Silver Spring and the District. Local bike activists are shocked (shocked, I tell you). Wrote one “For a county that sells itself as environmentally conscious and progressive, this decision is nothing short of a betrayal.” As if it hadn’t happened before.

  • 1/26/12 – How Can The Purple Line Be Built With No $$$ To Pay For It? (WMAL Radio)

    Montgomery County executive Ike Leggett says he will not allocate funding to construct a Purple Line Metro connecting Bethesda and New Carrollton until the state commits to a construction timeline. Under Leggett’s six-year capital improvement budget proposal, there is no funding earmarked for the Purple Line or rebuilding the south entrance of the Bethesda Metro Station.