In a huge blow to the DC area’s Metro expansion hopes, the Federal government and the Department of Transportation said today they had serious concerns about the financial viability of the proposal to extend the rail line through Northern Virginia to Dulles Airport.
So, if it isn’t financially and technically viable or sound to extend the one of the nation’s busiest rail lines through a region that is more densely populated and with worse traffic congestion than the Triangle, how would it be viable here?
But we want to be a world class city! Who cares what it costs? We may only reduce traffic by 1% for about a year, but we’ll have a big, expensive shiny toy like other big cities!