FCCT Files Response to Administration’s Move to Dismiss
The Hogan and Trump Administrations asked the court to dismiss FCCT’s lawsuit on the grounds that no one can stop them now, it is too late, as that is their only defense since they cannot show they have obeyed the law if FCCT gets to the merits in court. FCCT has rebutted Hogan-Trump Administration claims… Read more »
Trees and Taxpayers: Beware the Purple Line
The $5.6 billion Purple Line contract signed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) saddles Maryland with a 40 percent increase in long-term debt — probably the largest in the state’s history. Washington Post Op-Ed
Friends of Capital Crescent Trail continues court fight to prevent irreparable harm to trail and those who use it.
The State of Maryland claims that clearing cutting of the Capital Crescent Trail from Bethesda to Rock Creek Park must occur in the first weeks of the 4-5 year project to build the Purple Line, and further that they cannot provide the previously required 30 day notice to residents and local jurisdictions. Therefore their contractors closed… Read more »
The Purple Line is “transit that hurts transit” – five truths that you need to know about the Purple Line and why it is fiscally and environmentally irresponsible
The Purple Line is transit that hurts transit, according to Frank Lysy, a former Chief Economist of the World Bank Group (www.aneconomicsense.org.) and an expert in the lawsuit by Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail in which the federal court, on August 3, 2016, ordered suspension of the Purple Line pending further review.
Maryland bears the blame for “self-inflicted harm” from Purple Line P3 contract, says federal judge.
Federal Judge Richard Leon chastised Maryland for pressing ahead with a risky Purple Line contract and for rolling the dice with taxpayer money – even while the State knew full well that a lawsuit was proceeding in federal court. The Judge held the hearing on June 15 because Maryland is claiming “harm” from the delay… Read more »
Victory for Citizens’ Lawsuit: Federal Court Orders Agencies to Take “Hard Look” at Purple Line
In a victory for the citizens’ lawsuit led by Friends of the Capital Crescent Trail, Federal judge Richard Leon today ordered the FTA and MTA to undertake a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Purple Line. The judge found that the agencies’ “wholesale failure” to consider the expert submissions by Friends of the Capital Crescent… Read more »
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