This is MTA's light rail station in Glen Burnie today. Add noise for 20 hours, day and night, and you know what the Purple Line would do to the Capital Crescent Trail. For an example of light rail noise recordings go to http://youtube.com/watch?v=j2KZCSRPxCY
The Purple Line as proposed may violate the law on several counts including harm to federal and Maryland endangered species and their habitat. Contribute NOW to help us go to court to prevent the clear-cutting of trees on the Trail and in Rock Creek! Click here to donate.
Over 300 runners celebrated the joy and beauty of the Capital Crescent Trail at the Save the Trail! 5K on Saturday, May 24th. Full results can be found at the DC Road Runners Website.
https://www.change.org/petitions/trees-not-trains-on-the-capital-crescent-trail
Full results can be found at the DC Road Runners Website.
For Further Information Contact: Ajay Bhatt: (301) 500-0124 John M. Fitzgerald: (202) 288-0231 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2014 Lawsuit Is Filed against Purple Line to Protect Endangered Species, Popular Forested Trail Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail and Montgomery County residents filed suit today against the federal government to protect two species of […]
July 24, 2014 Environmental Groups and Residents Threaten State Legal Action to Protect Local Endangered Species The Center for Sustainable Economy, Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail, and sixteen individuals have filed a Notice of Intent to sue under Maryland law to protect species listed as endangered by the State of Maryland whose current or […]
06/25/2014 – Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Sustainable Economy, and Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail launch legal action to protect endangered species from Purple Line. Protecting the Trail is also about protecting endangered species habitat! Center for Biological Diversity, an influential national environmental organization dedicated to preserving endangered species, Center for Sustainable […]
From Washington Post Online “A letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Federal Transit Administration said the agencies had violated the Endangered Species Act by not properly considering a light-rail line’s impacts on the Hay’s spring amphipod, which has been listed as endangered since 1982, and the Kenk’s amphipod, which is a […]
“SAVE THE TRAIL 5K” FUNDRAISER TO PROTECT CAPITAL CRESCENT TRAIL FROM BIG DEVELOPERS –FIFTH ANNUAL RACE AND FAMILY FUN DAY TO BE HELD MAY 24, 2014 AT 9 A.M.– Bethesda, MD — The Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail (FCCT), local political and environmental leaders, and more than 400 runners and supporters will rally in […]
Local Environmental Organization Likely to Challenge Federal Transportation Administration’s Record of Decision on Purple Line
The Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail believe that the Obama Administration has fallen prey to greenwashing, as evidenced by the Administration’s recommendation for partial funding for the Maryland Transit Administration’s (MTA’s) Purple Line. Serious environmental concerns from multiple stakeholders remain unresolved, but yet, MTA is not being held accountable by the process as evidenced by the funding proposal.
Ajay Bhatt also wants the state to look into an alternative route. The president of the nonprofit Friends of Capital Crescent Trail emphasized that his group is not opposed to the Purple Line in general, and certainly not to mass transit. The group is opposed to the destruction and clear-cutting of about 20 acres of what is essentially parkland, the Capital Crescent Trail, to accommodate such a project.
His group imagines the trail as a “world-class linear park, stretching from Georgetown through Bethesda into downtown Silver Spring, preserving and enhancing green space when it is in critically short supply.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2013 CONTACT: AJAY BHATT (301) 500-0124 DEMONSTRATION PLANNED TO CONFRONT GOVERNOR O’MALLEY AT THE BETHESDA METRO TO HIGHLIGHT INVALUABLE 20 ACRE LOCAL PARK SLATED FOR DESTRUCTION BY PURPLE LINE PLANS “SAVE THE TRAIL!†PROTECT THE CAPITAL CRESCENT TRAIL “SAVE THE TRAIL, PRESERVE THE PARK†On August 5, the Friends of […]
The CCT has its problems, not the least of which is that the currently unfunded Purple Line light rail would run right down the Georgetown Branch. Even if a proposed 12-foot-wide paved trail is built alongside it, I’d have to reserve judgment about using it. That would be a very different experience from running on crushed gravel beneath overhanging limbs.
