From the Gazette
Some hike and bike trails also face delays. One is a $12.1 million project to extend the Metropolitan Branch Trail from the Silver Spring Transit Center to near Montgomery College’s Takoma Park campus.
That faces a delay of about three years to coordinate with the redevelopment of Ripley Street and other projects. The trail is proposed to run from Union Station in Washington, D.C., to Silver Spring, but has several large gaps.
Land acquisition of the trail extension is expected to be completed by this summer and the design done by the summer of 2016. Construction is not expected to begin until at least 2017 and be completed by mid-2021.
An estimate a year ago set the completion date at by mid-2018.
I first heard of the Met Branch Trail back back in 1998 when I was young and single, and now my kid will be able to ride the whole thing...when he's 11.
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