Please Vote for the Capital Crescent Trail in the Google Map Contest
Google Maps is holding a contest to determine which off-road places should be o be videoed. A "Trike" is going to be used to go off roads to video the winning Trail.

Just click on the website below to vote for the Capital Crescent Trail -- it takes less than a minute:
Then click on Capital Crescent Trail (under Parks and Trails), and then scroll down to click on "vote". (A new page should come up with "thank you". Occasionally an error message comes up randomly. Please try again. Also, you can vote multiple times.) http://bit.ly/392kG6

We are hoping for a good turnout at the Purple Line Hearings on Tuesday at 5:00 pm. We need EVERYONE's Help! Please Come and Support the Trail!
5:00 pm, Tuesday, Nov. 18
National 4-H Youth Conference Center
7100 Connecticut Ave.
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
All of the trees along the Trail -- 17 acres of forest -- will be bulldozed by the Purple Line, and they cannot be replaced with canopy trees.

Because the Trail is not defined technically as a park or recreation space (the County defines it as a transit right of way) the EIS simply ignores the environmental impacts of bulldozing the Trail and the trees. By completely ignoring the impact that trains or buses would have on 10,000 weekly Capital Crescent Trail users of all ages, and by simply dismissing the bulldozing of 17 acres of mature trees surrounding the Trail, the Maryland Transit Administration reveals its true bias in its so-called Environmental Impact Statement.

Pam Browning
Capital Crescent Trail Activist

My passion is saving the Capital Crescent Trail between Bethesda and Silver Spring. You may have heard there are plans to put the Purple Line along the Trail.

Actually, to shoehorn two sets of light rail train tracks into the right-of-way, they would have to bulldoze the existing Trail and all of the surrounding trees. That is 17 acres of mature trees. The Trail would be closed for about three years. A new “trail” or sidewalk would be installed about 10’ from the trains that would pass by every three minutes in both directions. Overhead wires would replace the tree canopy.
More than 16,000 trail users have signed petitions asking that the Purple Line be built in another location or tunneled underground. In just three weekends this fall, volunteers gathered 3,000 signatures. Just about everybody who passed us on the Trail signed our Petition.