December 21st, 2010 | by Colin Phillips | published in Purple Line, Wallace Loh
“This may be the most important decision of your presidency.” This is how new University of Maryland President Wallace Loh reports a piece of advice that he received from the federal Department of Transportation, when discussing the preferred alignment for the Purple Line. No pressure. The DOT only holds the keys to hundreds of millions [...]
December 1st, 2010 | by Colin Phillips | published in East Campus, Purple Line
Around 150 people filled the bleachers in Ritchie Coliseum on Tuesday night to learn about what the Cordish Companies and the Design Collective (C-DC) plan to do with East Campus. There was a mix of anticipation and weariness, as many in the audience were veterans of the ultimately aborted East Campus planning process led by [...]
November 21st, 2010 | by Alex Baca | published in Purple Line
Rethink College Park contributor Marcus Afzali’s piece, “Will U-Md.’s new president get on board the Purple Line?” is live on the Washington Post’s All Opinions Are Local blog went live late last week. An excerpt: “And the city’s future relies in part on the completion of the Purple Line — and, in particular, whether Loh [...]
November 2nd, 2010 | by Krystle Okafor | published in On Campus Development, Politics, Purple Line, Transportation
Before casting your vote today, please consider what you would like your commute and that of future College Park residents to look like. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob L. Ehrlich surely has: His transportation platform, as outlined below, does not help actualize the vision of the modern college town that we all would like College Park [...]
May 28th, 2010 | by Matt Johnson | published in Other College Towns, Purple Line, Transportation
The University of Maryland and the Maryland Transit Administration remain at odds over the Purple Line. One argument that UMD loves to trot out is that the light rail line will turn campus into a maze of tall fences. While MTA fiercely denies that they are planning to install fences, the University of Maryland claims [...]
May 27th, 2010 | by Clay Gump | published in Purple Line
“I’m not going to kill the campus to get the Purple Line.” ~ Dr. CD Mote, UMD President That latest push from the UMD Administration for a tunnel will add $51 million to the Purple Line project will effectively kill the federal funding for the Purple Line. This proposal presents exactly the same tunnel problems [...]
May 25th, 2010 | by Colin Phillips | published in Purple Line, Transportation
On Monday the 24th Rethink College Park co-sponsored a public forum on the Purple Line Campus Drive alignment. Joanna Calabrese [Director of Environmental Affairs, Student Government Association] kicked off the event. Councilman Eric Olson acknowledged the value of student government as a consistent advocate for the Purple Line, and for a routing that takes light [...]
May 21st, 2010 | by David Daddio | published in Purple Line, Transportation
Come out and participate in a critically important briefing by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) on the preferred Purple Line alignment on campus and related issues impacting College Park’s Future. As you may know, there has been a long-running debate on campus as to the proper location for the Purple Line. After an exhaustive analysis [...]
