The fallout from the FTA’s show of no confidence in the existing Dulles corridor Metro plan continues to generate coverage.

Private Interest In Rail To Dulles – The Post
The Carlyle Infrastructure Fund is mentioned as a potential private investor. Private financing of public transportation has the FTA’s endorsement.

Dulles Rail proponents fending off blame – The Wash. Examiner

EDITORIAL – Tysons turnabout – The Wash. Times

Politicians Scramble to Save Dulles Rail Project – WTOP

The Post‘s Get There blog wonders what Plan B winds up being and notes

“the Federal Transit Administration said it doubted whether the Washington airports authority could manage the project. Let’s take that concern as valid for a moment.

If the airports authority, which is managing the multi-billion dollar expansion of Dulles Airport, can’t manage construction of a Metrorail line, who could?

How about Metro?

No. After Metro built out the five rail lines as planned, it got out of the rail construction business. It no longer has a department that could immediately turn its attention to the task of building a new rail line across the District or the suburbs.”

Today’s Roads & Rails chat was focused on this issue as well.

Here is the MWAA project Web site: dullesmetro.com

Even though I rarely refer to this as the “Silver Line” (I don’t know if that is an official name or merely an anticipated one) I have gone ahead and created a category for Dulles Corridor rail called “Silver Line.”

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