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The Purple Line team, local elected officials and the communities of Lyttonsville and North Woodside gathered to commemorate the opening of the redesigned Talbot Avenue bridge. After a 6-year closure, the new bridge represents a significant pedestrian and vehicle connection for the Silver Spring area and symbolizes a milestone for the project.

Purple Line Progress - Spring 2024

Maryland Purple Line Senior Project Director Ray Biggs II provides a spring 2024 progress update. Momentum is advancing construction across the 16-mile alignment between Bethesda in Montgomery County and New Carrollton in Prince George's, marking significant milestones along the way.

It’s mid-May and our 2024 spring series of Community Advisory Team (CAT) meetings are in full swing.

The Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration today announced the spring 2024 Purple Line Community Advisory Team (CAT) meetings will be held from May 2 to 23.

Our April newsletter includes exciting photos across the alignment. Purple Line stations taking shape and visible track are some of the most recent milestones indicating that Maryland’s newest light rail system is making progress!

The Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration and Purple Line Transit Partners today announced they are seeking Board of Public Works approval of a modification to the Purple Line Public-Private Partnership Agreement that extends the contractual deadline for achieving Revenue Service Availability to Winter 2027.

Welcome to the Purple Line Newsletter! This week, we're sharing new information about the Purple Line project, and it's important that our stakeholders, Community Advisory Team members, businesses and agency partners learn this news from me directly.

This month's newsletter includes an interview with the Purple Line's Real Property Director, Brenda Fuller, a lifetime Prince George's County resident with a decade of leadership experience in public transit.

Purple Line Transit Partners (PLTP) has selected six exceptional organizations to receive its initial group of Beyond the Rails community grants. 

Happy New Year! Have you noticed that claiming a "word of the year" in January has gained popularity? Here at the Purple Line, our teams chose MOMENTUM as our word for 2024.