Comments on: From the Forum… Purple Line “will destroy the nature of campus life” http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2009/1168/ Helping imagine a great college town for a great university Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:30:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clay Gump http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2009/1168/comment-page-1/#comment-174594 Clay Gump Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:24:18 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/?p=1168#comment-174594 <blockquote>ugly-ass Ghostbusters-looking high-rises</blockquote> Funny.

ugly-ass Ghostbusters-looking high-rises

Funny.

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]]> By: A different Matt http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2009/1168/comment-page-1/#comment-174585 A different Matt Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:21:30 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/?p=1168#comment-174585 I've been ready to be excited about the Purple Line for years. Kinda reminds me of the ICC. Well, as far as I can tell, people were screaming bloody-murder about the ICC until significant parts of it were finished. Granted, I might be missing something, but I haven't heard many complaints recently. If CP is going to continue being an important spoke in the Beltway wheel, it needs better connectivity than the Green Line, the 81(huh, what's that?,) 83, and 86 bus routes. That said, Purple line through campus can be scrapped if anyone can propose some kind of turbo-bus route through campus. Or around. Really, traffic is so light with either choice, it shouldn't be hard. Oh. Wait. And if the argument is about "campus beauty," just think how nice it will be when there's an easy commute from a few miles away and people stop speed-building ugly-ass Ghostbusters-looking high-rises on the edge of campus... Trending topic on Twitter, anyone? #purplelinenow! I’ve been ready to be excited about the Purple Line for years. Kinda reminds me of the ICC. Well, as far as I can tell, people were screaming bloody-murder about the ICC until significant parts of it were finished. Granted, I might be missing something, but I haven’t heard many complaints recently.

If CP is going to continue being an important spoke in the Beltway wheel, it needs better connectivity than the Green Line, the 81(huh, what’s that?,) 83, and 86 bus routes.

That said, Purple line through campus can be scrapped if anyone can propose some kind of turbo-bus route through campus. Or around. Really, traffic is so light with either choice, it shouldn’t be hard.

Oh. Wait.

And if the argument is about “campus beauty,” just think how nice it will be when there’s an easy commute from a few miles away and people stop speed-building ugly-ass Ghostbusters-looking high-rises on the edge of campus…

Trending topic on Twitter, anyone? #purplelinenow!

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]]> By: Clay Gump http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2009/1168/comment-page-1/#comment-174567 Clay Gump Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:51:36 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/?p=1168#comment-174567 Matt, The underground option was abandoned due to cost. Matt,
The underground option was abandoned due to cost.

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]]> By: Matt http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2009/1168/comment-page-1/#comment-174505 Matt Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:11:11 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/?p=1168#comment-174505 Went I went to Maryland in the early part of the decade the talk at the time was to route the train underground, was I mistaken or was that idea shelved? Whats wrong with sending the light rail underground in College Park, or at least through campus. I know that would be a construction nightmare, but considering all the new buildings they have added in the last 10 years it would not be anything new. Went I went to Maryland in the early part of the decade the talk at the time was to route the train underground, was I mistaken or was that idea shelved?

Whats wrong with sending the light rail underground in College Park, or at least through campus. I know that would be a construction nightmare, but considering all the new buildings they have added in the last 10 years it would not be anything new.

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]]> By: Concerned Citizen http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2009/1168/comment-page-1/#comment-174489 Concerned Citizen Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:12:40 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/?p=1168#comment-174489 The university doesn't want the Campus Drive route. Period. Vibration is simply an excuse. The university doesn’t want the Campus Drive route. Period.
Vibration is simply an excuse.

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