Trail users criticize tunnel plans

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  • The Montgomery County Planning Board asked the state to study moving the Purple Line’s proposed Bethesda station to accommodate a popular trail that goes through a tunnel under Wisconsin Avenue.

    About two dozen Montgomery County residents on Thursday criticized suggestions to make users of a popular trail cross busy Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, after planners discovered that both the proposed Bethesda station and the trail would not fit in the tunnel.

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