Comments on: Purple Line Receives Green Light for Next Phase – CP Open House 11/1 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/ Helping imagine a great college town for a great university Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:03:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Colin Phillips http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/comment-page-1/#comment-190912 Colin Phillips Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:07:22 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/#comment-190912 No, it should have minimal impact on Paint Branch Parkway. The Purple Line will approach Route 1 by crossing the Engineering Fields at UMd, then pass through the middle of the new East Campus development. It will briefly coincide with Paint Branch Parkway as it approaches the underpass beneath the Metro/CSX tracks, before turning into River Road. The Purple Line description says that the trains and cars will share lanes on that short stretch of Paint Branch Parkway. No, it should have minimal impact on Paint Branch Parkway. The Purple Line will approach Route 1 by crossing the Engineering Fields at UMd, then pass through the middle of the new East Campus development. It will briefly coincide with Paint Branch Parkway as it approaches the underpass beneath the Metro/CSX tracks, before turning into River Road. The Purple Line description says that the trains and cars will share lanes on that short stretch of Paint Branch Parkway.

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]]> By: Bill Smith http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/comment-page-1/#comment-190910 Bill Smith Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:27:14 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/#comment-190910 Won't this turn Paint Branch Pkwy into a one lane road? Leading up to Route 1? Won’t this turn Paint Branch Pkwy into a one lane road? Leading up to Route 1?

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]]> By: Colin Phillips http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/comment-page-1/#comment-190894 Colin Phillips Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:19:52 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/#comment-190894 Is this remark primarily related to the ongoing dispute on the western end of the Purple Line over the routing through Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Silver Spring? Dense development will happen near major public transportation infrastructure. And that is a good thing. Encouraging people to live in situations where they take up less space and drive less is one of the best things we can do for the environment. Is this remark primarily related to the ongoing dispute on the western end of the Purple Line over the routing through Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Silver Spring?

Dense development will happen near major public transportation infrastructure. And that is a good thing. Encouraging people to live in situations where they take up less space and drive less is one of the best things we can do for the environment.

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]]> By: Kevin http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/comment-page-1/#comment-190893 Kevin Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:16:35 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/#comment-190893 I assume Paul is referring to the Oct. 5 article "Silver Spring residents question Purple Line redesign": http://www.gazette.net/article/20111005/NEWS/710059578&template=gazette . This includes quotes from residents of Lyttonsville, who are upset at last-minute changes to the design that would change the location of a Metro maintenance facility. I find it hard to believe anyone would intentionally make a trail harder to use, but perhaps I'm naive. While there are concerns that the maintenance facility would lower the quality of life for residents of Lyttonsville, I don't see anything in this article claiming that the Purple Line would encourage high-density development in locations it's not needed. These are not the same thing. I assume Paul is referring to the Oct. 5 article “Silver Spring residents question Purple Line redesign”: http://www.gazette.net/article/20111005/NEWS/710059578&template=gazette . This includes quotes from residents of Lyttonsville, who are upset at last-minute changes to the design that would change the location of a Metro maintenance facility. I find it hard to believe anyone would intentionally make a trail harder to use, but perhaps I’m naive.

While there are concerns that the maintenance facility would lower the quality of life for residents of Lyttonsville, I don’t see anything in this article claiming that the Purple Line would encourage high-density development in locations it’s not needed. These are not the same thing.

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]]> By: Paul Guinnessy http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/comment-page-1/#comment-190890 Paul Guinnessy Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:34:06 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5851/#comment-190890 I noticed that the new revised plan is upsetting a lot of people, who were promised that their houses etc.. wouldn't be encroached on, only to find out that they will be compulsory purchased. It also seems like they are deliberately making it harder to use the trail, now that access to it requires walking across a bridge to get to it (what about people with bikes and disabled?). Yet again it doesn't seem thought out, except of course, in encouraging high density development in locations its not needed. (see last week's Gazette for the details). I noticed that the new revised plan is upsetting a lot of people, who were promised that their houses etc.. wouldn’t be encroached on, only to find out that they will be compulsory purchased. It also seems like they are deliberately making it harder to use the trail, now that access to it requires walking across a bridge to get to it (what about people with bikes and disabled?).

Yet again it doesn’t seem thought out, except of course, in encouraging high density development in locations its not needed. (see last week’s Gazette for the details).

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