Newspaper Column: Metrorail to Tyson's Corner...And Beyond?

Abstract

After years of endless meetings, futile talk and vacant hopes, it now seems certain that rail will begin its march through the Dulles corridor. Long proclaimed by CEOs, planners and civic activists as the last, best hope to combat the traffic congestion and air pollution born of phenomenal economic growth, rail remained an evanescent vision, forever glimmering on the horizon but forever out of reach. After all, the estimated price tag was $2 billion.