Change is a long process: Action Coalition for Transit August meeting

There are many points in what I call the issue continuum and the process of effecting change. Change starts usually with ideas from the "outside." Eventually the ideas get absorbed and "transmogrified" in the process of being translated into policy and practice.

Such is the The Purple Line light rail system proposed for Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland--from activist idea to government construction project and operation...

From email:

Please join ACT on Tuesday August 11th at 7:30pm for a Celebration.

23 years ago ACT was formed around the idea of preserving the eastern 4 miles of the abandon B&O Georgetown Branch for a transit corridor. In the early years one of ACT's promotion projects involved pushing a railroad handcar with 4 rotary mowers welded on the front along the old tracks and picking up litter along the way.

After a few years the tracks were removed to facilitate the interim trail but the scope of the rail & trail plan grew into the 16 mile, 21 station Purple Line which was endorsed by Governor O'Mally this week. ACT will pause, briefly, for a celebration of progress.

The meeting is at Silver Spring Center, 8818 Georgia Ave which is a ten minute walk north from the Silver Spring Metro. Metrobus "Q" and "Y" routes stop in front of the Center. Ride On #5 stops two blocks west of the Center.