The folks over at Dulles Metro extension are breaking out the construction tools … and the credit cards. $900 million of the $2.83 billion price tag of the initial 11.6-mile leg is in that Transportation Department spending bill tied up in Congress and under threat of veto by President Bush. But with or without the money, officials plan to start work, reports The Examiner. Is it just us, or does this violate everything you ever…

It’s Thursday, and while were out of commission last week, we’re back this week with your weekly transit news, all packaged up and ready for delivery. After the jump, we’re feeling the Metro love from Maryland’s senators even while another tunnel debate is brewing in their state. Also, Fairfax roadways are beginning to look like tallgrass prairie. Photo by tony_fiorini…

Due to Budgetary Constraints, Metro’s Yellow Line Extension Was Less Than Riders Had Hoped For… We usually try to pick photos for Transit on Thursday (or Friday, as it were) that are either related to the post or simply creative new shots of all things Metro. This week left us without much of a theme, and the pickin’s of new Metro-related photos in the DCist Flickr pool were pretty slim (hint, hint). So we…

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….

In the 70’s, Karen Carpenter sang that “Rainy Days and Mondays” always got her down. Well, this would chart as a real downer, as today combines the two. On a cheerier note, Saturday morning I took in the unveiling of Cultural DC’s Shaw Heritage Trail, which included a fabulous performance by the Shiloh Baptist Church choir and had a great turn-out from the community; check out the Trail, and the local Shaw businesses, sometime in…