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Pro-Tunnel Group Drops Suit Over Metro Extension

Rendering courtesy Di Domenico + PartnersTHE EVER-TENACIOUS group of residents and business owners who have kept alive a fight to build the Metrorail extension through Tysons Corner as a tunnel have dropped their lawsuit to block a plan to run elevated track through the area. Mostly because that plan is already dead.

Reports The Post's Bill Turque:

Scott Monett, president of TysonsTunnel.org, a coalition of businesses and McLean-area residents, said today that the suit against the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is no longer necessary because his group believes that the agency recognizes the need to fundamentally reconsider the project. The coalition has pushed for a redesign of the 23-mile extension that would move the Tysons segment underground. Current plans call for an elevated track through the area.
The U.S. Transportation Department and the FTA said in January that they couldn't provide the $900 million in federal funding that planners had expected for the project because of concerns that, as Turque reports, include "the project's rapidly escalating cost -- now placed at $5 billion -- the ability of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to manage the construction, and the ability of Metro to integrate the extension into a system plagued by underfunding and a backlog of needed repairs."

» "Suit Against Dulles Rail Project Withdrawn" [WaPo]

Rendering courtesy Di Domenico + Partners

COMMENTS (1)

  • Mixed news I guess. So what's next for metro's plans?

    By Jason Yang , Posted March 26, 2008 4:43 PM
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