Despite a failed legal effort to keep its disgruntled private development partner on the job, Maryland transportation officials will start by mid-October the state's "short term" approach to completing the $2-billion Purple Line light rail across Washington D.C.'s northern suburbs. But it may be next spring before a construction path forward comes into focus for the much disputed and disrupted P3 project.
Keith Quinn, chief of the Maryland Transit Administration said in a Sept. 15 briefing to municipal officials that when the transition from Purple Line Transit Partners (PLTP) is complete in mid-October, the agency should be prepared to manage a scaled-back effort on its own.