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Saarinen's Ghost Haunts Dulles Metrorail Project
Dulles International Airport(Washington, D.C. - David Schultz, WAMU) Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia is not just an airport; it's also, according to design and planning guru Roger K....
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As Planners Decide to Put Station Underground, Intense Political Machinations...
(Washington D.C. - David Schultz, WAMU) The construction of a subway line out to Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia is one of the largest public works projects in the country, with a...
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LaHood Said to Reject Federal Loan To Dulles Metrorail Project
(Washington D.C. - WAMU) US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood met yesterday with the partners behind the faltering Dulles Metrorail project, a nearly $6 billion venture to build a new subway line out...
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UPDATED: LaHood Proposes Dulles Metrorail Compromise
Tunnelling under Tysons Corner (photo courtesy of Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority)U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has proposed a compromise to end the bitter feud between the...
View ArticleFTA Head: McDonnell To Pitch In $150 Million More To Dulles Metrorail
(Washington D.C. - WAMU) Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell may be pitching in more money to the Dulles Metrorail project, despite his recent complaints that its cost has grown too high.Leaders at the local...
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How Politics Doomed Dulles Airport's Underground Subway Station
Dulles Airport (photo by Bobby Hidy via Flickr)(Washington D.C. - WAMU) The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority has reversed its controversial decision to build an underground Metro Station at...
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Dulles Rail Silver Line in Jeopardy Over Labor Pay Dispute
(Washington, DC - WAMU) Loudoun County officials say Phase 2 of the Metro Dulles rail project known as the Silver Line may be delayed. Phase 1 is expected to be completed in August 2013, but disputes...
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Tolls Still a Sticking Point in Dulles Rail Project
Silver Line construction near Tysons Corner, VA (photo by cizauskas via flickr)A Virginia citizens group says the most critical issue surrounding the construction of Phase 2 of Metro's Silver Line to...
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Big Decisions Approach for Big Dulles Rail Project
A month before Loudoun County, Va. officials must decide whether they will withdraw from one of the the largest public transportation projects currently under construction in the country, they have big...
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Vote On Pro-Labor Clause For Silver Line Scheduled For This Week
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to keep a controversial pro-labor provision in its plans for Phase 2 of the Silver...
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Dulles Rail Supporters, Opponents Plead With Loudoun Board
Phase 2 of the Metro Dulles rail project, known as the Silver Line, is either a boondoggle or the key to Loudoun County’s economic future, depending upon whom you ask.Nearly 200 people packed a public...
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Political Pressure Kills Labor Provision in Rail-to-Dulles Silver Line
Listen to the audio version of this story at WAMU(Washington, D.C. -- WAMU) The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority voted 11-1 to drop a pro-labor provision from the rail-to-Dulles project.The...
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Loudoun Leaders Leaning "No" on Silver Line to Dulles Airport
After four hours of debate Monday night, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors only inched closer to deciding how to fund its $270 million commitment to Phase 2 of the Silver Line rail project to...
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MWAA to Loudoun County: No Extension on Silver Line Deadline
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s CEO says the agency will not grant a request by three members of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to extend a deadline for a critical decision...
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Proposed Silver Line Toll Hike Vexes Virginians
Higher tolls are coming to the Dulles Toll Road next January. The question remains how high.The public had its first chance to weigh in on projected toll increases at an open house Thursday night...
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Lawsuit Says DC Airports Authority Can't Raise Tolls To Pay for Rail
(Washington, DC -- WAMU) The agency that's running the Silver Line rail project to Dulles Airport is holding public hearings on its plan to dramatically raise tolls on the Dulles Toll Road to pay for...
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BREAKING: Federal Money Could Stave Off Dulles Toll Road Toll Hike -- If the...
Construction crews work on the Silver Line to Dulles International Airport in Virginia. (Photo CC by Flickr user Wayan Vota)The federal government may provide a substantial loan to the agency running...
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Some Air Travelers Are Actually Happy. Yes, You Read That Right
“It's game-changing. Amazing. It's the best.”In the 11 years since Al-Qaeda terrorists used passenger planes as weapons on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, air travelers have rarely used such words...
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MWAA Board Member Rips Secretary LaHood and Silver Line Funding
Work on the first phase of the Silver Line rail to Dulles Airport is ongoing, but officials are still fighting over funding for Phase 2. (Photo by Sean Marshall via flickr)An outgoing member of the...
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Outgoing MWAA Board Member: Virginia's Funding of Silver Line "A Disgrace"
Dennis Martire (photo courtesy of LiUNA)Dennis Martire and the agency he worked for would be paid little attention – if not for the responsibility running one of the largest public transportation...
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Audit Exposes Litany of Shady Dealings by Agency Running D.C. Area Airports
Accepting two tickets to the Super Bowl. Hiring relatives. Awarding no-bid contracts worth millions.The agency that operates Dulles International and Reagan National Airports and the $6 billion Silver...
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MWAA Votes to Raise Fees on Dulles Toll Road
(photo by bankbryan via flickr)The agency managing the largest public rail expansion in the nation voted to increase tolls on a Virginia highway in part to help fund construction of the Silver Line.On...
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D.C. Airports Board Spent $1.5 Million Defending Former Board Member
The agency managing the construction of the $5.5 billion Silver Line rail project in Northern Virginia spent more than a million dollars in legal fees in two lawsuits defending one of its board members...
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YEAR IN REVIEW Washington, D.C: Silver Lines, Express Lanes, Gentrification,...
(photo by Wally G)The Washington D.C. metropolitan region saw major developments in transportation that included progress toward completing the largest public rail project in the country, the opening...
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Sec. LaHood Says Loan for Silver Line "Looking Good"
Ray LaHood, the caffeinated U.S. transportation secretary, says a TIFIA loan for the Silver Line looks like a go (photo by Martin DiCaro)U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood expressed optimism a...
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Investigation: Washington Airport Agency Leadership Targeted Pro-Labor Board...
Dulles Airport (photo courtesy of Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority)(Washington, D.C, - WAMU) A former board member of the authority in charge of airports in the Washington, D.C. region is...
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Virginia House and Senate Negotiators Strike Transportation Funding Deal
Virginia capitol building (photo by Thruhike98 via flickr)In a final attempt to reach a compromise on measures to raise substantial new revenues for transportation before the scheduled adjournment of...
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DOT Head Questioned Over Support of MWAA Leadership
After U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood praised the beleaguered Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority at a Congressional hearing last autumn, two Democratic members of Congress did a slow...
View ArticleFew Major D.C.-Area Flight Delays Three Days Into Furloughs
When automatic federal spending cuts under a process known as sequestration loomed in March, federal officials warned the furloughs of air traffic controllers would snarl the air travel system and...
View ArticleNew Highway Won't Turn Dulles Airport Into Major Cargo Player: Study
Building a ten-mile parkway in Northern Virginia won't turn Dulles International Airport into the premier air cargo hub on the East Coast, according to a study by the George Mason University Center for...
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