The Purple Line

The Purple Line is a 16-mile Light Rail line with 21 stations between Bethesda in Montgomery County and New Carrollton in Prince George’s County, Maryland. This new line connects four branches of the Metro system as well as all three MARC Commuter Rail lines with Amtrak, providing rapid east-west travel. Critical to the success of the project, a strong understanding of the surrounding urban context and transportation design ensured that the station designs met key considerations of the neighborhoods. The stations were a mix of at-grade (16), elevated (3), and below-grade(2) station designs.

The Iron Horse team was in charge of all production, coordination, schedule management, and quality control for the entire stations team. Our team worked in conjunction with the construction, operations and maintenance, and transit authority teams throughout the project as we moved through the design process to deliver functional, constructible, and maintainable stations that meet the needs of not only the transit authority, but also the end user.

This is a P3 joint venture with Purple Line Transit Partners (Fluor/Meridiam /Star America), with Atkins as the lead design firm.