The stalled Purple Line project is expected to roar back to life as soon as the spring now that a new team of builders has been selected to complete the chronically delayed 16-mile light-rail line.
Purple Line Transit Partners, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Transportation and Maryland Transit Administration, announced Friday that Dragados USA Inc. and OHL USA Inc., operating as Maryland Transit Solutions, will finish the $5.6 billion project. Financial terms were not released.
The next steps, per a release, “include finalizing contracts as PLTP advances efforts to secure required financing.” Only after the state’s Board of Public Works has approved the new contractor, a replacement design-build contract and an amended public-private partnership agreement — and the financing is closed — will work restart.
“Next spring, MTS is expected to mobilize and resume full-scale construction of the Purple Line,” per a release.
The news comes just shy of a year after…
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