Purple Line light-rail system would bring new infrastructure to neighborhoods
2013-09-16 12:45:10
Summary： The substation, which would be about 50 feet by 14 feet and surrounded by a tall wooden fence, would provid...
The substation, which would be about 50 feet by 14 feet and surrounded by a tall wooden fence, would provide power to the trains’ overhead wires. Edwards considers it an “industrial monstrosity”
“They’re dumping this 60-foot humming electrical power [station] right at our front lawns,” Edwards said. “The trains themselves are not the problem. It’s their supporting equipment.”
That could include 20 power substations, 14 “signal bungalows” containing train-control equipment, a nine-story “ventilation tower”
Michael Madden, who leads the transit agency’
“We’ve worked very hard to minimize the [physical] impacts to the community,”
Montgomery County Council member Valerie Ervin (D-Eastern County) said she learned only in June about the power substation proposed for Wayne Avenue at Greenbrier Drive. She said she plans to “dig my heels in”
“I don’t think any of us know how complex this construction is going to be,” said Ervin, who lives one block off Wayne. “It’s starting to get serious now. Now it’s really getting down to the nitty-gritty .?.?. of how long our neighborhoods are going to be disrupted.”
The other major infrastructure planned for her district — a Purple Line train yard in Lyttonsville —
Lyttonsville residents had been worried about living near a rail yard, she said, but they are now “content”
Washington area residents used to Metrorail’
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