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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Rail to Loudoun no sure thing for supervisors, Loudoun Times, March 14, 2012

Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2012 by Trevor Baratko
Astute observers looking to count votes on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors’ “decision of a generation” – Phase Two construction of Metrorail to Dulles – are going to have to wait.
When supervisors were asked if they would support funding 4.8 percent of the $5.3 billion Metrorail Silver Line expansion, were there a vote today, only two gave definitive answers.
And those two responses – a resolute “no.”
Supervisors Ken Reid (R-Leesburg) and Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) said they will not support a project estimated to cost the county approximately $260 million out the gate, and roughly $21 million to $25 million annually in operational costs (though that estimate is hotly debated). . . .
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