Twenty-five thousand dollars can really take you places. Unless you happen to be the Maryland Transit Administration. In that case, $25,000 will take you exactly twelve inches.
That’s the cost of building one foot of the Purple Line, the planned light-rail system that will link four Metro stations and several of the Washington, D.C. area’s fastest-growing suburbs on the Maryland side.
The line inched closer to reality this week after Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announced that Annapolis would seek a public-private partnership to build and operate it.
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