Navy Yard Funds Kept in Spending Measure

WHEN OFFICIALS from Metro, the District and the Nationals gathered at Half and M streets SE earlier this month to break ground on a construction project that will expand the Navy Yard station entrance closest to the new baseball stadium, there was something that wasn't totally settled about the project. From a Metro press release at the time of the groundbreaking:

The $20 million project budget is being funded on an interim basis by the District of Columbia until the Federal Fiscal Year 2007 budget is approved.

Note interim basis. Now there's a little permanence to that funding. Yesterday on Capitol Hill, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate signed off on a $463 billion spending plan for the rest of the fiscal year. And as The Post's Lyndsey Layton reports, while the spending bill was stripped of earmarks, funding for the Navy Yard station expansion was kept in.

» "Metro, Community Leaders Break Ground on Enhancements to the Navy Yard Metrorail Station to Coincide with Ballpark Opening" [WMATA]
» "Democrats Move Leftover Spending Measure" [WaPo via JD Land]
» "New Ballpark's Exit, Entry Strategies" [Free Ride/Express]

Posted By Michael Grass at 10:53 AM on January 31, 2007 Tagged in Capitol Hill , D.C. Government , Free Ride , Navy Yard , News , The District , Transit

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