Elm Street remains closed at the west side of Wisconsin Avenue, as it has been since January 2017. As the new construction contractor for the Purple Line light rail project gears up to resume work on Elm, a new pedestrian elevated walkway has been constructed from Wisconsin down Elm alongside The Wilson and The Elm.
Crews will be working on the Purple Line Bethesda station underneath those two buildings, and on the access points for Purple Line and southern entrance to the Bethesda Metro Red Line station on Elm Street. In other Purple Line news, crews are scheduled to resume erection of sound barriers along the railway's route in the vicinity of East-West Highway, working from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM seven days a week as necessary.
4 comments:
This is actually not a "Wooden" walkway, the only part that is wooden is the railing or guard rail. The actual walkway is concrete slab.
@11:20AM nope, walkway and rails are very much wood. It’s painted, so it’s not slick in rain.
Robert was correct. It is a wooden ramp and wooden guardrail that climbs up on top of and existing short section of concrete planter/seat wall. This was built to provide a narrow handicapped ADA accessible pathway, but still allow room for the Purple Line Contractors to build the new elevators and stairs to the new Metro entrance.
Let’s hope it doesn’t take them forever to build the NEW METRO Entrance. They could open the additional South Entrance for the Red Line Station even before the Purple Line is opened………I can think of many people (including ME) that would prefer the Elevators at the South Entrance to the Massively Long Escalator Ride at the North Entrance !
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