The February 5 meeting of the Woodside Civic Association (WCA) focused on the Purple Line. The MTA project team briefed the WCA on the current project status and design.
MTA Project Manager Mike Madden briefs WCA at the Feb. 5 meeting.
WCA took up a resolution to support the Purple Line light-rail with trail immediately following the MTA briefing. The resolution passed by unanamous vote.
Most of the resolution addresses the benefits to Woodside from the light-rail and proposed transit station at 16th Street, as it should. But a significant part of the resolution addresses finishing the CCT:
".......WHEREAS the proposed hiker-biker trail will provide a significant improvement to the recreational trail system for our residents, ensuring a safe way of traveling by bike or on foot to Rock Creek Park and other destinations, and
WHEREAS failure to proceed with the joint use transit/trail project may leave residents of Silver Spring with no off-road connection to the Georgetown Branch and Capital Crescent Trails..."
"....WCA affirms its support for the completion of the hiker-biker trail along the 3rd Avenue right-of-way between 16th Street and Spring Streets, and supports moving forward with segments of this trail connection wherever possible so that the neighborhood gains some improvements to the trail and so that regrading and
replanting along the impacted area can proceed as quickly as
possible."
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