Accord reached on Metro train control room, Washington Post, May 10, 2011

By Kafia A. Hosh

 

Fairfax County officials on Tuesday ended a dispute over the location of a train control room that would manage the switches and signals needed to transfer trains from the Orange Line to the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, commonly known as the Silver Line. . . .

. . . In a 6 to 4 vote Tuesday, the Fairfax Board of Supervisors approved the appeal and also reversed the Planning Commission’s decision (thereby allowing MWAA to build the train control room where it wanted to). . . .

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