MTA Shares Purple Line Construction Updates

Written by Jennifer McLawhorn, Managing Editor
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The station canopy at the Piney Branch Road Purple Line station near the intersection of University Boulevard and Piney Branch Road. The rainbow roof tiles are part of the Art in Transit installation for this station.
Courtesy of MTA

BETHESDA, Md. - In the Purple Line Newsletter, Purple Line Senior Project Director, Ray Biggs II shared construction updates in both Montgomery and Prince George's Counties.

The newsletter, below, breaks down the progress made from May 2024 to September 2024. Throughout the previous summer, project teams welcomed the first of seven light rail vehicles to the Operations and Maintenance Facility (OMF), completed construction on Campus Drive, and Purple Line Transit Operators (PLTO) took over the OMF, where it is now “a hub of major activity with catenary wire installation and other critical testing preparation.”

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Included are several pictures of construction updates with captions courtesy of MTA:

Embedded track construction on Wayne Avenue.
Bethesda Enclosed Trainway.
Stairs leading to the platform at the Connecticut Avenue Purple Line station.
Crews install handrails on the ramp leading to Riverdale Park North-UMD station.
A newly paved section of Kenilworth Avenue.
Embedded track construction along Ellen Road in New Carrollton.
Guardrails installed along the light rail bridge over the Northeast Branch Anacostia River.
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