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May 2, 2017 at 4:22 PM EDT

How much do you love transit? Does your passion for fixed-rail infrastructure so fill your heart that you must break out in song?

For singer-songwriter Kyle Thompson-Westra, the answer is apparently yes. At a rally today organized by Purple Line NOW in support of the Purple Line, a proposed light-rail line between Bethesda in Montgomery County and New Carrollton in Prince George’s County, he busted out a folksy ode to the unbuilt 16-mile, suburb-to-suburb connector.

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