New Carrollton News

Dan Gross/The Gazette Watkins Mill Road west of Rt 355 is a dead end that is currently used for parking by construction crews working nearby.

Opponents of building the Purple Line along the Capital Crescent Trail will be out in full force this Saturday morning for the annual "Save the Trail" 5-kilometer run along the shaded trail through the woods.

The increase in Maryland's fuel tax, signed into law by Gov. Martin O'Malley last week, is projected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for Montgomery County road and transit projects.

The Maryland Department of General Services has selected a site in New Carrollton to be the new home for the state's Department of Housing and Community Development under a lease proposal to be considered for approval later this month.

Traveling on Metro this weekend? Stay informed about delays. Metro will perform system rebuilding work on all but one line in this weekend.

Gov. Martin O'Malley signed Maryland's increased gas tax into law Thursday, and announced $1.2 billion of new road and transit projects that would be built with the new revenue.

Traveling on Metro this weekend? Stay informed about delays. Metro will perform system rebuilding work on all but one line in the system for the weekend of May 17-19. This weekend's rebuilding work will result in service changes on the Red, Orange and Green lines.

Each week, Patch puts together a list of local activities and events going on in your area this weekend.

For teens and 20-somethings in America, driving is much less of a daily thing than it was, say, 20 years ago.

Turnout was strong and comments were mostly positive at an open house about the Purple Line light rail project at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School on Tuesday evening.

Blue and Orange Line trains are delayed in the direction of New Carrollton and Largo Town Center due to a signal problem outside Eastern Market.

Track work will close Metro stations along the Orange Line this weekend, for the third time in the past month.

Project leaders working on Metro's Purple Line - which would connect Bethesda with New Carrollton - say they are optimistic that the 16-mile light rail line will be open by 2020, WJLA.com reported .

The Maryland Transit Authority has scheduled a series of five open houses to update citizens on the status of the much-discussed Purple Line, according to a Washington Post story .

Metro will perform system rebuilding work on all but one line in the system for the weekend of May 10-12. This weekend's rebuilding work will result in service changes on the Red, Orange, Blue and Yellow lines.

Maryland transit officials are preparing to notify 110 residents and business owners along the planned 16-mile Purple Line route that they might have to move if a light-rail line is built between Bethesda and New Carrollton .

In the wake of Monday's elections, the three newly-elected New Carrollton council members said they plan to improve city services.

These five Red Line stations will be closed for the weekend of May 3-5 as Metro does track work: Glenmont, Wheaton, Forest Glen, Silver Spring and Takoma.

Partly for perception and partly for process, Prince George's County is home to 15 undeveloped, or under-developed, Metro stations - the most valuable real estate in the Washington area.