University of Maryland students want the school to support train line through campus

Student leaders are urging the University of Maryland to advocate more strongly for an east-west rapid transit line through campus. They say the administration's opposition to an aboveground train could hurt the project's chances of being built. The students say that tunneling a train beneath the College Park campus, as administration officials have urged, could make it prohibitively expensive. The debate comes as the Maryland Transit Administration conducts a $30 million study of a proposed 14-mile light-rail or bus rapid transit link between Bethesda and New Carrollton,

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