Editorial: Dulles rail’s moment of truth, Washington Post, July 17, 2011

NEARLY EVERY stakeholder in Metro’s Silver Line extension to Dulles International Airport has seen the light when it comes to a cost-cutting package that would rescue the project from implosion. Oddly, the lone holdouts appear to be a few members on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority board, which runs Dulles and Reagan National airports and which is also building the Metro line — even though they stand to lose the most from the project’s collapse. Unless board members come to the right decision in the coming days, the failure of Dulles rail will be on their shoulders.

The way forward is to scrap extraneous expenses — first and foremost, an underground station at Dulles . . .

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