We were right to be frustrated by the repeated woes of Metro’s Silver Line extension. But set aside for a moment the multiyear delays and cracked panels and cost overruns — the line is finally going to launch, on Nov. 15 if all goes to plan, connecting D.C. with Dulles International Airport and beyond to Ashburn.
Insert giddy “Doors opening” voice here.
Eight-plus years ago, the first Silver Line trains carried passengers from Falls Church to Tysons and tantalizingly close to Reston Town Center. The $3 billion, 11.4-mile Silver Line extension will add six stations to Metro’s map, spurring development of millions of square feet of the very kind of new construction everybody wants — transit-accessible, mixed-use, hopefully sustainable and smart.
Well, where it’s allowed. Here, I want to focus on where it won’t be. I’m talking about the station served by a 1,900-space parking garage, and nothing else. The one surrounded by warehouses, data centers — and vacant land slated…
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