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Fairfax Board OKs Metro Extension Funding

Rendering courtesy Dulles Corridor Metrorail ProjectTHE TYSONS TUNNEL is likely dead. Maybe, this time for real.

This afternoon in an 8-2 vote, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved $400 million in funding for the first phase of the Metrorail extension to Dulles Airport that would travel through busy Tysons Corner via an elevated rail line instead of a tunnel.

While almost everyone has said a tunnel is through Tysons is the more desired option, the high cost of such a routing has put the overall project in jeopardy more than once. Here's more from The Post's Amy Gardner and Debbi Wilgoren.

» "Fairfax Votes to Fund Metrorail Extension" [WaPo]

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COMMENTS (2)

  • This is going to be visually atrocious...

    By Jason Yang , Posted June 18, 2007 10:30 PM

  • This is great. Time to start building.

    By peter , Posted June 19, 2007 9:51 AM
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