Perusing the Metro news this week, another poll suggesting that Northern Virginians might want to just cut themselves off from the rest of the state got us all excited. But we got a little bummed when we found out that Virginia’s Great Tunnel Debate would end up pushing back the timeline of the Dulles Metro extension quite a bit. The possibility that Maryland might begin the Great Tunnel Debate 2.0 depressed us even more. However, news of more progress on the NextBus system (Dan T.’s legacy?) left us feeling alright about this week’s transit news after all.

Also, our usual rundown of Metro service changes for the weekend.

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