Trolleys are also called light rail, and, when they run on city streets,
streetcars.

To reduce our dependence on foreign oil supplies, this is where urban
transportation investment ought to go, instead of into more freeways, parking
structures, and other automobile infrastructure.

Tom Mathews
Transportation Issue Chair,
Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter
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Subj:    Fw: Montgomery Council Backs Trolley Plan
Date:   03-02-06 11:42:35 EST
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Subject: FW: Montgomery Council Backs Trolley Plan

Fwded news.  BV.

 Subject: Montgomery Council Backs Trolley Plan

 washingtonpost.com METRO
In Brief
Wednesday, February 5, 2003; Page B03
MARYLAND

Montgomery Council Backs Trolley Plan

The Montgomery County Council reaffirmed its support yesterday for a proposal
to link Bethesda and Silver Spring by trolley, casting aside an alternative
offered by County Executive Douglas M. Duncan (D) in an attempt to broker a
compromise on a Metro Purple Line.
The council's 7 to 2 vote was intended to end debate over how to provide
train service across Montgomery, despite continued division between the
council and Duncan over the routing. The matter now rests with Maryland Gov.
Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R), who is to decide by March which major transit
projects to submit to the federal government for funding.
The council's majority expressed objections to Duncan's proposal and
questioned efforts by the county executive and others to steer trains away
from the Columbia Country Club and pricey homes in Chevy Chase. Council
member George Leventhal (D-At Large) asked whether it was fair to deprive
people in Silver Spring, "some of whom clean the homes of the folks who live
in Chevy Chase," of the ability to get across the county easily.
Duncan called the decision "a disappointment." He, like Ehrlich, has said he
opposes the trolley plan because it would take land from popular
hiking-and-biking trails. He was joined by council members Howard A. Denis
(R-Potomac-Bethesda) and Nancy Floreen (D-At Large).


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