U.S. Transportation Chief Backs Dulles Rail Project – The Post
The Silver Line is very, very close to being official.

After a series of regulatory setbacks in 2008, rail to Dulles was revived last month when the Federal Transit Administration discarded long-standing skepticism about the project’s cost and management and sent it on to Peters for final action. Yesterday’s news marks what state, local and congressional boosters said is the government’s irreversible approval of the project.

All that remains for a sixty day comment period in Congress and then presumably the project is officially underway. Planned completion of the first phase of the line, between Whiele Ave. in Reston and West Falls Church is 2013. It will be thirty years too late, but better late than ever.

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