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"Nowhere near done" seems like a bit of an exaggeration, given that the link at the top of your linked page suggests that it's over 3/4ths done[1].

It's also, to my understanding, not grade-separated in various important places. I was in College Park two weeks ago and saw lots of at-grade development on the line, which presumably gets bogged down by Route 1 and the other high-traffic roads nearby.

(This isn't to imply that the construction isn't slow or inefficient; it's almost certainly both of those things.)

[1]: https://purplelinemd.com/media/jdwhz3kj/purple-line-press-re...



The last 10-20% of these projects always takes surprisingly long. The 2027 opening date is already looking questionable: https://wjla.com/news/local/purple-line-construction-project.... And it was supposed to open in 2022.


The 80/80 rule of project management: the first 80% of a project takes 80% of the time, and the other 20% takes the other 80% of the time.




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