| # | Name | What is your university affiliation? | Comments |
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| 51 | Colm Atkins | Alumnus | |
| 52 | Andrew Rose | Grad Student, Alumnus, Student Leader | This is outrageous - the University should support the Purple Line down Campus Drive!!!!!! Dr. Mote, please stop. |
| 53 | Sandra Eichbaum | neighbor | The Campus Drive route is the best way for people to get to and from the center of the College Park campus. |
| 54 | Christina Maria Jaunakais | Undergraduate Student | |
| 55 | Bridget Warren | Neighbor | |
| 56 | Aydin Haririnia | Alumni | |
| 57 | Brooke Taylor | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| 58 | Jim Elliott | Graduate Student | It makes no sense to route the Purple Line down Stadium Drive. This route is longer, much less-convenient to the center of campus, and would present a safety hazard before and after football games. If the university is serious about getting people out of cars and into alternative forms of transportation, it should support the Campus Drive alignment. |
| 59 | farhad naghash | alum | |
| 60 | John W. Euill, III | UMUC Student | I support the Campus Drive alignment. There is no central gathering place on Stadium drive. Most of the foot traffic getting off at the Stadium Drive location would most assuredly migrate to Campus Drive and further south. Also, there is nothing to greet you at Stadium Drive. There is no central hang out.. |
| 61 | Rina Brule | student | |
| 62 | Heidi Ruffler | grad student - graduating 12/07 | It is crucial that UMD takes steps to reduce its CO2 output and the number of cars driving on campus. I spent 2 years commuting from Washington DC to the UMD campus. On a daily basis, the shuttle ride up Campus Drive was stalled by the high volume of traffic - mainly personal cars. Bringing the purple line to Campus Drive would make the campus much more attractive for pedestrians and would reduce the need for people to drive to campus. |
| 63 | Justin Senseney | Undergraduate student | |
| 64 | Ricardo Dent | Prospective Grad Student | Shouldn't the University have learned their lesson after the Metro decision disaster? |
| 65 | Kevin Hawkins | BA, BA '02 | One of the main reasons I have not considered applying for jobs at the University of Maryland is that I want to live in a more walkable and transit-oriented community. For these things, I'll stay in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| 66 | Mary Shelley | Alumna and area resident | |
| 67 | Peter Blank | Student | |
| 68 | Pamela White | staff and student | The Campus Drive line makes the most sense and will enhance the image the university as a thriving, outward looking institution which welcomes people and ideas. |
| 69 | Anonymous | Employee | I also live near campus. The purple line would make it possible for me to use Metro to travel to many place I regularly visit around the area. As Metro is presently constructed, it is often time consuming and inefficient to travel by Metro instead of car.
This would increase my use of Metro.
Furthermore, as a resident of a neighborhood close to campus, the Purple Line could enable many sports fans and attendees of other university activities to use public transportation rather than driving. |
| 70 | Marie Howland | Faculty | |
| 71 | Christoper Dickersin-Prokopp | UMD Graduate Student | |
| 72 | Neil Spring | Faculty | I would like to live in Maryland (instead of DC) and continue to not pollute my way to campus. The purple line would enable me to do so, where the J4 and similar bus routes are inadequate and inconvenient toward a non-9-5 schedule like those of students and faculty. I have dealt with inconvenient college park metro station placement for three years now; let's not repeat mistakes. |
| 73 | Yochanan Zakai | Maryland Resident | I would like to be able to ride the purple line to visit friends on campus at UMD! |
| 74 | Tracy Isaac | Class of 1999 | |
| 75 | Jose Dory | Undergrad & Graduate | |
| 76 | Mark Rose | Student | While it is cost effective in the long run to have the Purple Line above ground, tracks and trains create disconnects with sides if on grade. The Purple Line should be placed underground, even though the initial cost would be great, the cost in the long run for this institution would be less for maintenence and other issues. |
| 77 | Duffy Nobles | | As residents of 15years in College Park Woods community, we continue to support the benefits of bringing the Purple Line Metro on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park including the 5 point benefits listed in this petition. In addition, as residents of College Park we have seen and experience the challenges of increasing automobile traffic and are concerned about how the increasing traffic affects global warming for our county. |
| 78 | Michael McNevin | | |
| 79 | R. Kyle Derby | Alumni c/o 2007 | |
| 80 | Ryan B Harvey | University of Maryland (PhD Student) | |
| 81 | Lindsay Grimes | alumni | |
| 82 | Libby Benton | | |
| 83 | Morgan Gale | neighbor | The campus drive alignment will serve the most students and faculty while preserving the center of campus for open space. This alignment will also bring the largest reduction of vehicular traffic in an area currently dangerous to pedestrians who must mingle directly with vehicular traffic. |
| 84 | Andrew Newsome | Civil Engineer Undergrad | This route is ‘straight’ and services two cores, the Stamp Student Union and East Campus since the line passes directly through them as opposed to a diverted route. Direct access is considered a boon to many and it is likely that the two centers will appreciate managed mobile options to attract regional clout.
While safety concerns are always a priority in any project, I feel the ones that the president are coming up with are rather ludicrous and unfounded. Walking to Susquehanna every other day, I find that crossing Campus drive is already a chore dodging around cars and trucks and buses, and there are those few rude enough to keep going, but I wait patiently because I know I'M NOT GOING TO GET RUN OVER. Like every other kid, I was taught how to cross a simple little street. Adding a street train is no different than another bus or truck. [Sometimes I think those trucks are more hazardous on campus since they have to navigate tight spaces and hopefully not jump the curve, but you know, University of Maryland Transportation service trucks already do that.]
I feel many stand to benefit from a centralized location that serves the -region- as a whole. I don't want future generations of passengers and students to suffer, Campus Drive is our best alternative! Let's do all we can to keep it that way. |
| 85 | Maynard Mack, Jr | faculty | The University made a terrible mistake 35 (?) years ago when campus leadership forced Metro off campus. We must not make the same mistake again. Light rail is part of any sane future energy and transportation policy and the University stop should be near the center of things. This will help the campus maximize its oft-boasted strategic advantage of having easy access to the research and internship opportunities of the National Capital area. Campus leadership has talked of closing Campus Drive to regular traffic for more than 20 years, but has done absolutely nothing. The Purple Line will increase safety by getting frustrated private vehicle drivers off Campus Drive, leaving it for the Purple Line, professionally-driven buses, and emergency vehicles. |
| 86 | James H. Menasian | graduate. former faculty | When the University decided against having the Green Line stop directly on campus, it was one of the most idiotic decisions ever made !! Let's hope the University has now seen the light, and that it becomes a proponent for the Purple Line. |
| 87 | Sebastian Smoot | Undergraduate Student | |
| 88 | Evan Patronik | Grad Student | |
| 89 | Shannon Simmons | graduate student government assembly member | |
| 90 | David Kuhl | University of Maryland College Park | |
| 91 | Debra Baker | Graduate Student | Gaithersburg (Shady Grove) to College Park Metro is over an hour now (not counting getting from home to the Metro and from Metro to campus). The purple line would cut my commute in half! |
| 92 | Jeremy Best | University of Maryland Graduate Student | |
| 93 | Stephen J. Scala | University of Maryland | Let's do the sensible thing--purple line now. |
| 94 | Nicholas Schlosser | | |
| 95 | James M Curry | graduate student | |
| 96 | Chris Sullivan | Grad Student | |
| 97 | Benjamin Skolnik | Graduate alumnae | removing cars from the center of campus would improve pedestrian and biker safety. Many students suffer collisions with autos. |
| 98 | Anonymous | University of Maryland college park | |
| 99 | Anonymous | graduate student | |
| 100 | Ally Hudson | Graduate Student and employee | |