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    1. Rail

    MD: Purple Line Neighbors Told to Expect ‘Intrusive’ Construction as Crews Build Tunnel

    Aug. 7, 2018
    Purple Line construction is now well underway in Montgomery County, and neighbors can expect some significant impacts over the next four years. “We are cheek to jowl next to neighborhoods for pretty much the entire length of the project," the spokesman fo

    Source WTOP

    Purple Line construction is now well underway in Montgomery County, and neighbors can expect some significant impacts over the next four years. “We are cheek to jowl next to neighborhoods for pretty much the entire length of the project," the spokesman for the major construction project says.

    In Silver Spring, purple construction sound walls behind a Giant grocery store shielded a group of row houses from work just a few yards away from their front doors. Crews are working on a tunnel there in what will be the middle of the line.

    Crews have tunneled about 150 feet, putting up rebar that gets sprayed with concrete to support the hole created by the noisy machine hammering through the rock and soil. 

    Read the complete article at https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2018/08/purple-line-construction-cheek-to-jowl-with-neighbors-for-next-four-years/slide/1/