{"id":4041,"date":"2014-10-06T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:01:00","slug":"waba-launches-petition-to-save-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4041","title":{"rendered":"WABA Launches Petition to Save Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waba.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/no-tunnel-for-the-capital-crescent-trail\/\">Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plans have fallen through\u00a0for a\u00a0Capital Crescent Trail tunnel underneath Wisconsin Ave in downtown Bethesda. Montgomery County attempted\u00a0to facilitate a redevelopment of\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@38.9825779,-77.0934467,3a,75y,215.43h,96.58t\/data=%213m4%211e1%213m2%211sjXKERI_CagjdjgAhsZRJxg%212e0\" target=\"_blank\">Apex Building<\/a> that would have allowed a large and more efficient Purple Line light rail station and trail tunnel. In a closed session several weeks ago the County Council, at\u00a0the recommendation of County Executive Ike Leggett, decided not to move forward with this attempt.<\/p>\n<p>WABA is\u00a0disappointed that the county has abandoned these plans. The Capital Crescent Trail is one of the most traveled multi-use trails in the county, and the Purple Line transit project is a once-in-a-lifetime investment in better trail infrastructure. Redevelopment of the Apex Building would have allowed for the best possible station and trail. . . .<\/p>\n<p>WABA has been working for\u00a0more than two decades on the Capital Crescent Trail.\u00a0The trail is a well loved community resource which provides an important recreation, fitness and transportation benefit to visitors and residents of all ages. The vision has always been a seamless trail from Georgetown to Silver Spring. While the Purple Line will complete a major gap in the trail, it leaves behind a new one.<\/p>\n<p>We are disappointed\u00a0by this loss of an tunnel option and hope that County officials exhausted all options before making this decision. We expect a safe, grade-separated crossing of the trail at Wisconsin Avenue to be the long-term solution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/org.salsalabs.com\/o\/451\/p\/dia\/action3\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=16524\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4042 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WABA-Petition.jpg\" alt=\"WABA Petition\" width=\"982\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WABA-Petition.jpg 982w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WABA-Petition-300x27.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) blog: Plans have fallen through\u00a0for a\u00a0Capital Crescent Trail tunnel underneath Wisconsin Ave in downtown Bethesda. Montgomery County attempted\u00a0to facilitate a redevelopment of\u00a0the Apex Building that would have allowed a large and more efficient Purple Line light rail station and trail tunnel. In a closed session several weeks ago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WABA Launches Petition to Save Tunnel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[457,1048,37],"tags":[851,1549,1049],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bethesda","category-bicyclists","category-purple-line","tag-capital-crescent-trail","tag-ike-leggett","tag-waba"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-13b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}