A contentious two-week public feud between Maryland officials and D.C. Metro board members that included accusations of extortion, calls for the chairman’s resignation and talk of disbanding the panel was defused with little fanfare Thursday when the board reached agreement on a committee restructuring that had threatened to block a critical land swap for the 16-mile light-rail Purple Line.
In the end, the fighting and name-calling was resolved in a couple of minutes; the result, the number of Metro board committees was shrunk from seven to four. Maryland got its land deal.
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