Tunnel for Tysons?
Politicians in Washington, D.C.'s Virginia suburbs are debating whether to build a tunnel for a rail line through Tysons Corner. Several weeks ago a tunnel was eliminated from the plan due to cost concerns, with an aerial track structure planned instead. But the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors worries that a viaduct would be ugly, permanently scarring the visuals of the aspiring downtown of Tysons Corner. Some also dispute previous cost estimates for the tunnel, saying that it would be only slightly more expensive than an elevated structure.
Fairfax Supervisor and Metro board member Dana T. Kauffman says that there's only one chance to do this project right, and doing it right calls for a tunnel. Unfortunately the project is so expensive that it might not get built at all if it fails the federal bureaucrats' cost-efficiency measures. Ah, bring in the pork barrel spending--er, earmarks. (It's never "pork" when it's in your hometown, is it?)
Road exhibit: okay, it's not really transit related--it's an exhibit about interstate highways. But it is in, oddly enough, Washington's Union Station. They should have put it in an inhospitable, car-dominated place--I know where: Tysons Corner!
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massysett | 1:09 PM |
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