Per the Maryland Department of Transportation: “Governor Wes Moore today announced a path forward in addressing mobility and access challenges along the American Legion Bridge, I-495 and I-270, with the…
Virginia and Maryland couldn’t play nice to build a real purple line. Maryland is building it on their part of the beltway, but if you read the article, you’d see that part of the issue is the bridge over the river. Part of this is a political problem, rather than Maryland not seeing the value of public transit (which to a relative degree the state has).
The article even explains that transit is part of the plan after all.
Virginia and Maryland couldn’t play nice to build a real purple line. Maryland is building it on their part of the beltway, but if you read the article, you’d see that part of the issue is the bridge over the river. Part of this is a political problem, rather than Maryland not seeing the value of public transit (which to a relative degree the state has).
The article even explains that transit is part of the plan after all.