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Part of Georgia Avenue in Montgomery County will be converted into a designated bus lane this summer to accommodate the scheduled closure of the Metro’s Red Line north of Fort Totten, county and WMATA officials announced Tuesday.
“I’m as happy as you can possibly be announcing a disruption,” Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said at a Tuesday press conference at Silver Spring’s Paul Sarbanes Transit Center. “There are thousands of people who ride that train, and if there is no train, they’re back in cars…the thought of all those folks having to add to the cars on Georgia Avenue would have been a serious problem.”
“To me, this shows what can be done, and now it’s about seeing if we can make some of these things permanent and really move things forward,” Clarke said. The long-anticipated Purple Line will span from Bethesda to New Carrollton, and will be operated by the state of Maryland’s transportation department, not WMATA. Currently, it is set to open in late 2027.
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