LaHood to Get Rail Honor
US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will receive award Tuesday from the Dulles Corridor Rail Association.
The Dulles Corridor Rail Association board of directors will present an award to US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at its annual meeting Tuesday in Tysons Corner.
LaHood, who stepped in to form a compromise among stakeholders to reduce costs for the Silver Line's Phase 2 in 2011 and to keep Loudoun County from pulling out of the project in 2012, will also be the guest speaker at the event.
DCRA Chairman Del. Kenneth Plum and Vice Chairman Del. Tom Rust will present the award to the Secretary, according to a news release. Fairfax County Board Chairman Sharon Bulova will provide welcoming remarks.
The Silver Line Phase 1 is on schedule and more than 80 percent completed. It is scheduled to open in December 2013.
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Bob Bruhns
4:57 pm on Friday, December 14, 2012
Mr. LaHood thinks this double-priced rail ripoff is so great, that it should be a model for similar projects across the country. Unfortunately, people actually fall for this nonsense - so the only thing that is likely to stop that from happening, is national bankruptcy, or maybe the sequestration that is cutting MAP-21 funding of Tifia loans, or Virginia's growing bipartsan unwillingness to waste money on this ripoff project.
Look out, people - the money isn't coming, so you have to pay for this yourselves! Changes the whole picture, doesn't it.
LaHood calls Metro's Silver Line model for the country
WTOP, August 13, 2012
http://www.wtop.com/41/2991855/LaHood-calls-Metros-Silver-Line-model-for-the-country
House Passes Continuing Resolution without MAP-21 Spending Levels
AASHTO Journal, September 14, 2012
http://www.aashtojournal.org/Pages/091412HouseCR.aspx
House Passes Continuing Resolution without MAP-21 Spending Levels
Truckinginfo.com, September 18, 2012
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=78052
Va. lawmakers turn cold shoulder to Fairfax transportation pleas
Washington Examiner, December 11, 2012
http://washingtonexaminer.com/va.-lawmakers-turn-cold-shoulder-to-fairfax-transportation-pleas/article/2515709
The excessive pricing of the Dulles Rail - Silver Line Metrorail project
http://www.bruhns.us/civic/DullesRail/Dulles-Rail---Silver-Line-overcost-report---Bruhns.pdf