Utility relocation issues continue to plague Maryland’s $3.4-billion Purple Line light rail project, with startup of the privately-developed 16.2-mile transit line across Washington, DC’s northern suburbs now pushed back to July 2027—more than five years later than originally planned.
The time extension is part of a Maryland Transit Administration request to the state Board of Public Works to modify the agency’s seven-year-old contract with Purple Line Transit Partners, the development consortium handling design, construction, operations and maintenance.