RICHMOND — Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has amended the state budget, possibly withholding money for the authority that operates Reagan National and Dulles International airports until Virginia’s two new members are seated on its board.
State lawmakers said Thursday that the change could hold up the state’s $150 million contribution to Metro’s multibillion-dollar planned extension to Dulles, but officials with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority say McDonnell’s administration has assured them it does not. . . .
If you want to read more about this angle on the politicizing of the Silver Line, click here.
So far, the only issue NOT dealt with in the posturing, politicking, partisan blather about Phase 2 has been the absurd notion that over half the line's $6 billion cost can be paid through astronomical tolls to cover all the toll road's cost plus 55% of the Metrorail line's construction cost--some $17 billion with MWAA near-junk financing over more than four decades--by 100,000 to 150,000 Dulles Toll Road users.
When will the adults show up? Where are they now?
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