More than 900 people are involved in designing and building the 16-mile light-rail Purple Line through the Maryland suburbs.
The line, which will connect Maryland’s spokes of the Metro system, is being built with a $5.6-billion public-private partnership, one of the most-far reaching such arrangements of any U.S. transit project.
The line, which will have 21 stations, is scheduled to open to passengers in 2022. However, trains are expected to begin running as early as next year on two miles of test track to be built in the Glenridge area of Prince George’s.
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