Lawmakers blast airports authority over Dulles Metro, Washington Examiner, August 16, 2011

So far, this Examiner article is the only media coverage of yesterday's  Virginia House Transportation Committee's hearing on MWAA's handling of Dulles Metrorail.   The paucity of news coverage is unfortunate because MWAA is spending billions of dollars of area taxpayer and Dulles Toll Road riders money on Metrorail in a highly politicized and opaque insider process as the state transportation committee criticized yesterday. 

By: Liz Essley | Examiner Staff Writer | 08/16/11 8:05 PM

 

The head of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority took what one observer called a "shellacking" Tuesday from Virginia lawmakers upset with the authority's handling of the Dulles Metro rail project.

  The state House Transportation Committee dished out question after question to authority chairman Charles Snelling about the way the authority made its decisions regarding the nearly $7 billion project, charging that the unelected MWAA board lacked transparency and disregarded public opinion. 

"They have to make some substantive changes in how they make their decisions," said Del. Joe May, R-Leesburg, chairman of the committee. . . .

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/2011/08/va-lawmakers-blast-airports-authority-over-dulles-metro#ixzz1VIdhZ7i4