Groups to sue over Metro’s expansion – WTOP
A potential delay to the Silver Line, already being constructed through Tysons Corner, has emerged:

The group, TysonsTunnel.org, has been pushing for an underground route through the area. It is teaming up with the environmental group, Sierra Club, to file the suit.

A national watchdog group is expected to join the suit.

Scott A. Monett, president of TysonsTunnel and the vice chair of the Sierra Club’s Great Falls group, won’t name the watchdog group, but does say it’s a “good governance group.”

Again, too little too late. While I would have preferred an underground Metro line through Tysons Corner for long term cost and aesthetic concerns, I can live with an above ground one. The mobilization for making sure the Silver Line was a tunnel came years too late. This suit, if it does not get thrown out, will just add years to the construction and millions to the cost.

Silver Spring seems to do just fine with the Red Line elevated through it, so I think Tysons will too. Crystal City gets by with having an airport and at-grade railroad adjacent to it as well and nobody seems to mind.

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