Maryland Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn revealed Thursday that the state is anticipating a delay in opening the Purple Line.
The state has projected that the light-rail line will open in the spring of 2022, but Rahn said the delay will likely mean it opens later that year.
Rahn attributed the delay to the environmental lawsuit that pushed back the start of construction by about six months. Construction was initially scheduled to begin at the end of 2016, but didn’t begin until August, when a federal court reinstated the project’s environmental approval in the court case.
The court case has since been resolved. The federal Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of the project in December.
Rahn mentioned the delay during a speech he gave Thursday at an event hosted by the pro-transit group Purple Line Now at Montgomery College’s Silver Spring campus.
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