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In case you missed it, the Dulles Rail project, aka the Silver line, finally got official approval from the Federal Transit Administration for the first phase of the project yesterday. The approval allocated $5.2 billion for the Falls Church to Wiehle Avenue section of the line, while the extension to Dulles itself will come in the second phase. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and the Office of Management and Budget still need to sign off on the project.
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We went to the Macy's at 12th & G this morning for the Black Friday morning specials. There was a sh
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Hooray for Falls Church! Now begins the long and tedious process of every goddamned NIMBY neighborhood between Tysons and Dulles filing legal challenges to block the rail line, citing irrepairable environmental impact, noise, cholera, mange, dropsey, the clap, and athlete's head. All of this couched in terms to make it seem like they're trying to save Mother Nature.
The douchebagginess is exceeded only by the idontgivea$h!ttiness.
Metro can combat the NIMBYS easy. Just show them what their 4 bedroom 1/2 acre 1960's ranch house will be worth once the gates open.
Hooray! It's a step in the right direction, even if it is three decades late.
I'm hoping that the Obama administration really pushes new rail/public transit projects.
Next: how about upgrading the East Coast Corridor? A train in the European or Japanese style could cover the distance between DC and NYC and well under 2 hours.
Monorail, monorail!!
$5.2B won't buy us a tunnel?
Jeslett: $5.2B won't buy us a tunnel?
No, but it will problem buy you a youth jobs program in the District with overruns.
Hopefully there will be upgrades made to the orange line at the same time. It's already over capacity...just wait until the silver line folks start piling on too.
i'm not going to link to every place that talks about it, but look to ggw, richard layman, et al, and know that, without another tunnel under the potomac, the silver/orange line will be the worst clusterfuck this city has ever seen.
I hear that in deference to Dulles Airport, the Silver Line will spend several hours delayed on the tarmac each day.
Just goes to show.... if you build stunningly poorly designed suburban messes miles from the city center, with no thought to roads or transit, eventually the taxpayers will bail you out retroactively and build you a really expensive Metro line.
Nothing quite like rewarding decades of bad planning and passing the buck to taxpayers long after most developers made their millions and skipped town.