WTOP’s Adam Tuss was up in Montgomery County this morning, tweeting up a storm about a hearing on the proposed Purple Line, the light rail line which would connect Bethesda and New Carrolton by linking existing Metro infrastructure. There were some interesting revelations (not the least of which that the project’s projected cost has now ballooned to $1.6 billion), but we were dismayed at the news that a section of the line near Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Silver Spring would have to be shifted. Why? According to Tuss, five pieces of property in that section of the line would have “their front yards shaved off,” but, of course, no one from the Maryland Transit Administration had bothered to inform the owners of those homes about it yet. Whoops.