Two pieces of good news for Riverdale Park Station:
1. The Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods has led to massive price cuts there:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-28/amazon-cuts-prices-at-whole-foods-as-much-as-50-on-first-day
2. The Purple Line was finally approved:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/chao-and-hogan-sign-purple-line-agreement/2017/08/28/117b9eae-8c06-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953_story.html
Although if you look at the map of where the Purple Line stops are I do not see it helping Riverdale Park Station very much.
http://www.purplelinemd.com/images/about_the_project/preferred_alternative/purple_line_preferred_alternative_map.pdf
The "Riverdale Park" stop is all the way down at Kenilworth and East West Highway which would be the same walk as the College Park metro is right now if not further.
The stop they plan to put at M Square will probably be the closest to Riverdale Park Station once the bridge to M square is done. They are saying 2022 at the earliest for the Purple Line which means it won't be done till 2024 at the earliest... Still it's good that they have begun.
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