The fees would help pay for the construction of the Metro’s Silver Line project.
A Fairfax County circuit judge ruled that the upcharge doesn’t represent an unconstitutional burden.
And then that bear — or another! — was seen in a backyard near Vienna.
Currently, motorists pay up to two dollars, each way, to use the Dulles Toll Road. But the one-way toll along the highway could climb to as high as $19.25 by 2040, reports Kytja Weir.
This has been in the works for some time, but now it’s official: the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors unanimously approved a plan today to raise rates on the Dulles Toll Road, WTOP’s Adam Tuss reports. Starting Jan. 1, the toll at the main gate will increase from 75 cents to $1, while tolls at the off ramps will go up from 50 to 75 cents. Tolls will increase an additional 25 cents…
Good morning, Washington. It looks like California’s still on fire, and likely to remain so. Most versions of the aforelinked AP story include the phrase “firefighters all but concede defeat,” and the Post is calling the resulting evacuation the largest in modern history. It all sounds pretty grim. Good luck, West Coast. Yet More Stadium Parking Controversy: The Post reports on the latest in a seemingly neverending series of deliberations over parking at the…
>> Given how notoriously bad our area’s traffic is, nothing is more frustrating than rubberneckers who slow down to stare at every blow out and speeding ticket they pass. This morning along the Dulles Toll Road, however, they had something legitimately interesting to look at. $5 bucks says she names the kid Hunter. [NBC4] >> Teenage mutant ninja whippets. Bullies on the half shell. Puppy power! [International Herald Tribune] >> If you live in…
Good morning, Washington. We pestered you yesterday about your Memorial Day plans. Today, a word of warning: make sure they don’t include flip-flops. As FOX5 helpfully warns us, the sandals can lead to sprains, broken bones or even the dreaded Flipflop-Induced Foot Failure Syndrome (aka FIFFS). We had no idea we were in such peril. Bad Day For Bobb: Yesterday the U.S. Senate unanimously approved Mayor Fenty’s school takeover plan. Rest assured, we’ll have…
Don’t panic, Washington! You didn’t in fact leap ahead an entire month when changing your clocks on Sunday. A mere week after temperatures dipped into the low 30’s, today we can expect the mercury to hit an unseasonably high 70 degrees, with tomorrow getting even warmer. Why not walk to work and avoid soaring gas prices? Oh, that’s right. Traffic Cameras Only Halfway There: A new assessment of D.C.’s traffic cameras by the company slated…
Damn alarms. We’re a little late on flipping through our newspaper this morning, so stay tuned as we live-blog the news. 9:29 a.m.: Since Adrian Fenty doesn’t already have enough to do, he’ll be fielding questions in an online chat over at the Post at 11 a.m. We’d like to know how he can spend the time keeping his head so nicely shorn when we’re still trying to balance sleep, work, and shaving once…
