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UMD AI Study Aims to Ensure Transit Options Don’t Create One-Way Ticket to Rising Rents
Written by Katherine ShaverAs construction on the light-rail Purple Line continues between Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, University of Maryland researchers are helping to ensure that lower-income renters can continue living close enough to share in its benefits.View Article Details for UMD AI Study Aims to Ensure Transit Options Don’t Create One-Way Ticket to Rising Rents 
Getting the Purple Line and Its Neighbors on Track
The young mother pushed her stroller across University Boulevard in Langley Park, Md., with the focus (if not the raw speed) of an Olympic sprinter. Racing the tick-tick-tick of the neon walk signal, she joined a throng of pedestrians maneuvering from median to median across eight lanes of battered roadway, while a nearby fleet of backhoes and dump trucks helped install track for the state’s new light-rail line.View Article Details for Getting the Purple Line and Its Neighbors on Track 
College Park’s ‘Main Street’ Finishes Safety Upgrade
This article was originally published in Maryland Today. Written by Allison Eatough ’97. Chester Harvey’s commute from Washington to the University of Maryland via Metro and a foldable bicycle has always been eco-friendly, if not always convenient. Sometimes he’d have to use the sidewalks and clunk over the concrete seams every second. Or he’d take an indirect route using shoulders and side streets to avoid busy Baltimore Avenue.View Article Details for College Park’s ‘Main Street’ Finishes Safety Upgrade 
$1.6M FTA Grant Aims to Support Communities Along Purple Line Route
This article was originally published in Maryland TodayUniversity of Maryland researchers will work to preserve affordable housing, protect neighborhood assets and create access to green space for the 200,000 residents living along Maryland’s coming light-rail line, supported by $1.6 million award from the Federal Transit Administration.View Article Details for $1.6M FTA Grant Aims to Support Communities Along Purple Line Route 
Whose ‘Right to Suburbia’?
This article originally appeared in Maryland Today.Ellsworth Avenue in Silver Spring, Md., sizzles on a summer evening: Residents stroll along its tree-lined sidewalks under the neon glow of upscale chain restaurants, retailers and a Whole Foods Market. Beyond the din of downtown is a different kind of sizzle: the intoxicating aroma of sliced meat frying in butter, garlic and onion—called tibs—wafting from one of many Ethiopian restaurants just outside the city center.View Article Details for Whose ‘Right to Suburbia’? Ariel Bierbaum Promoted to Associate Professor
Dr. Ariel Bierbaum has been promoted with tenure to associate professor of urban studies and planning by the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.View Article Details for Ariel Bierbaum Promoted to Associate Professor