Green Line to Westphalia?
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IF YOU'RE HAVING trouble keeping track of planned, future and proposed transit expansion in the region — the Dulles Metrorail extension, the Green Line expansion to BWI, the Purple Line linking Bethesda, Sliver Spring, College Park and New Carrollton — here's another potential project to throw into the mix: The Green Line to Westphalia near Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County.
Its all part of a plan to make the Andrews Air Force Base area the National Defense and Technology Corridor, a notion championed by the Prince George's County Business Roundtable. As The Post's Anita Huslin reports:
...[T]he Business Roundtable suggested that the county's planned town center just east of Andrews should be developed with an eye to serving the military community. Under the county's plan, 15,000 units of housing, 2 million square feet of retail, six new schools, and hotels and entertainment venues would be built. Eventually, according to the plan, a town about half the size of Columbia would rise on 7,000 acres bound by Ritchie Marlboro Road to the north and east, the Capital Beltway to the west, and Maryland Route 4 to the south.An Andrews Air Force Base-area terminus never came into serious consideration during the drawn-out battle in the 1970s and '80s over where the Green Line's southern stretch should end.
SINCE THE DISTRICT is scarred by a soaring HIV/AIDS infection rate — the city has the highest rate of new AIDS cases per 100,000 people in the U.S., 10 times the national average — tomorrow's National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness and Information Day takes on additional importance.
As part of the day's activities, a coalition of organizations is examining how people released from prisons or halfway houses face health issues upon re-entering society. The health summit is being sponsored by Unity Health Care, the D.C. Mayor's Re-Entry Taskforce, Court Services Offender Supervision Agency and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Testing from last year has shown that "more than one of every 20 inmates at the D.C. jail" is infected with HIV/AIDS, The Post's Susan Levine reported at the time.
The summit is taking place Tuesday from 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the ARC Theatre at 1901 Mississippi Avenue.
» "Profile of the Epidemic" [Whitman-Walker Clinic]
» "City Tests Reveal Infection Rate Double the U.S. Average" [WaPo]
» "AIDS/HIV" [WaPo]
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