Snow in the Midwest and rain across the Southeast Friday and Saturday mean hundreds of flight delays and cancelations.
Snow from Chicago to Kansas City and heavy rain in the South mean flight delays and cancelations at both Dulles International Airport (IAD) and Reagan National Airport (DCA) Friday. Check for flight delays and cancelations here. As of 11:15 a.m. Friday, delays in Chicago had largely cleared up, but delays in Kansas City, St. Louis and other areas of the Midwest were increasing. Several flights to the STL and KCI airports have been canceled. Those delays are affecting some flights into and out of Dulles International and Reagan National airports. Airlines are strongly recommending you check your flight's status prior to leaving for the airport. Here is contact information for airlines serving IAD and DCA. Snow is falling in the Chicago …
Airport security is sweeping Parking Garages 1 and 2 Monday night.
UPDATE: 12:15 a.m. According to @dcairports, the official Twitter account for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority: "All #IAD Dulles facilities are open and operating normally. Check w/your airline in the event of residual flight delays. Final update." --- Dulles International Airport security personnel were busy sweeping parking garages Monday night, after a bomb threat was reportedly called in to the airport, according to spokeswoman Kimberly Gibbs. "I believe it was a phone-in threat," said Gibbs, who works for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. "We are inspecting the garages at Dulles right now," she said, noting that Parking Garages 1 and 2 were being scrutinized. Gibbs noted that the FBI will likely also …
A trio of panelists promoted the opportunities they believe rail to Loudoun represents as partners await Loudoun’s decision.
Attendees of Wednesday's Loudoun Chamber of Commerce’s breakfast discussion on proposed Metro service to Loudoun heard more about a study that touted the positives impacts and that the commonwealth might be willing to pay more than the $150 million recently approved. While the breakfast session focused on the study Stephen S. Fuller, director of George Mason University’s Center for Regional Analysis, performed on the projects financial impacts to the region, Virginia Sec. of Transportation Sean T. Connaughton told the audience the state may contribute more once some things are worked through with the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority. “The governor, who is from Northern Virginia, knows is it critical to extend rail to Dulles and …
Online discussion about Phase 2 on Friday.
You may have lost track of the big picture of the Silver Line subway construction from Falls Church through McLean and Tyson's Corner to Dulles Airport because it has disrupted traffic and changed the landscape forever. Two new subway stations are located in McLean on Dolley Madison Boulevard and another directly opposite Tysons Corner Mall main entrance. Two other stations are located along Route 7 between Route 123 and the Dulles Access and Toll Roads. Here's where the project stands by the numbers. 1. The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project is a 23-mile extension of Metro’s Orange Line. When finished it will whisk riders from downtown Washington to Dulles Airport in one ride, no transfers. 2. It is under construction in two phases. Phase…
Wednesday is one of the biggest travel days of the season. Make it a smooth one.
Thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel times for air travel around the nation. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority offers the following tips to help passengers with their travels this year. “We advise our customers to plan ahead and arrive early during peak times this holiday season,” said Jack Potter, Metropolitan Airports Authority President and CEO. “We want travelers to have a good experience at our airports when they visit family and friends during this time of year.” The Airports Authority anticipates that the Thanksgiving holiday rush started , Nov. 18 and wll continue through Monday, Nov. 28. Peak travel times are typically during the early morning (5:30 a.m. to 8 a.m.) and late afternoon (3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m…
LaHood's July 3 white paper on reducing Dulles Metrorail Phase 2 costs includes aboveground station at airport.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants Dulles Metrorail stakeholders to cut $1.058 billion from the Phase 2 price tag, and he says that each of the funding partners must make financial sacrifices to keep the project on schedule and affordable. The July 3 white paper presents LaHood's proposal that was crafted after five closed-door meetings since June 1 with the funding partners, including Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority board, state elected leaders and officials in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. The second phase extends rail from Reston to Dulles International Airport and eastern Loudoun County. LaHood entered the fray as a mediator on June 1 because tensions among the stakeholders reached an all-time high with MWAA …
10:41 am on Monday, August 13, 2012
Many residents (me included) did not want to see Ballston high-rise type development, but to say residents claimed there wouldn't be would any commercial development? Your comment Mr. Webster, is false. For us to believe traffic would only increase on game days and special events ignores pressure from increased development elsewhere combined with limited existing transportation options - that … more ›
Stakeholders in the rail to Dulles project met Friday.
Stakeholders in the rail to Dulles Airport project met Friday morning for the second time this week to negotiate how to cut Phase 2 of the project's $3.5 billion price tag. The three funding partners of the rail project—Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), Fairfax County and Loudoun County—have less than 30 days to have a financial plan back to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who met with the stakeholders on Thursday. LaHood told the three parties that he wanted them to work together to cut the cost of the second phase. LaHood came in as a mediator as friction grew after MWAA’s controversial decision in April to spend $330 million more for an underground station at Dulles Airport, instead of a cheaper above-ground …
10:21 am on Friday, June 10, 2011
The problem is that the Fairfax County supervisors used all the available money to create a detour through Tyson's Corner which was not a part of the originial plan. The feds are still on tap for the $900 million which was 45% of the originial cost of the rail line to Dulles following the toll road/Dulles AP access road which went by Tyson's to the North West. When Fairfax decided to "dogleg" it … more ›
LaHood asks key players to reduce price tag within 30 days.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today asked the key players for the jeopardized rail to Dulles Airport project to reduce the second phase’s $3.5 billion price tag within 30 days. LaHood called the meeting with the hope of tempering the friction with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) board since its April decision to build a more expensive underground station at Dulles Airport. That decision increased the project cost by $300 million. Original estimates for the project came in at $2.5 billion, and that’s the figure on which stakeholders are focused. MWAA’s decision upset state and federal leaders and its funding partners in Loudoun and Fairfax counties. Representatives from both Fairfax and Loudoun counties …
8:14 am on Saturday, June 4, 2011
Just out of curiosity, John, how do you know about business in and around Moscow? Did you do your doctoral dissertation on Planning and Zoning in the Former Soviet Union? And don't we do that to the same extent? P&Z, the Reston Master Plan and any one of a hundred other planning initiatives have the effect of outlining land use. But since we're making fun of the former Soviet Union, did you know … more ›
Suit against MWAA charges that the rising tolls are illegally being used to extend Metro.
Two Northern Virginia activists have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority charging taxation without representation for increasing tolls to pay for Metrorail to Dulles Airport. Robert Cynkar, Christopher Kachouroff and Patrick McSweeney represent toll-road users John Corr of Great Falls and John Grigsby of Hillsboro, in Loudoun County. Before MWAA took control of the Dulles Toll Road in 2008, Northern Virginia voters turned down a referendum to create a special tax to raise $350 million a year to pay for extending Metrorail to Dulles Airport. The lawsuit states that the trouble started three years after voters turned down the referendum. In 2005, the Commonwealth Transportation Board increased …
4:15 pm on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
How can it be a tax when no one if forcing you to pay it. use of the toll road is 100% voluntary. It's a ridiculous lawsuit meant to stall a project that offers more affordable transportation, smart growth development and, most importantly, JOBS. more ›
Dave Webster
11:46 am on Sunday, May 13, 2012
Bob, I don't know why the 2020-2030 time period was isolated and the amount $72.2B was chosen by Prof. Fuller to tout rather than the overall figure. I note that elsewhere Prof. Fuller stated without the Silver Line, Loudon County "loses hundreds of billions of dollars in foregone economic activity." http://www.wtop.com/654/2856289/Loudoun-supervisors-undaunted-by-Silver-Line-report Prof. Fuller … more ›