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Article #13081Re: Rail to Tyson's
From: Amy Rickard
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:00
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Article in Thursday's Washington Post on proposed plans by companies to build a commuter bus line out to Dulles. This would most likely lead to a commuter rail line in the same corridor. -- Amy http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/21/034l-012199-idx.html On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:20:48 -0500, Dan Nagle <dnagle@erols.com> wrote: >Hello, > >Two observations re the talk of building rail to Tyson's: > >1. It's light rail, not metro rail, so there's no possibility >of _ever_ having direct trains between National and Dulles, >or Dulles and downtown. > >2. One of the funding sources "identified" is the "surplus" >from the Toll Road. The bonds should be paid off rather >than using the tolls for any project in the area. > >-- > >Cheers! >Dan Nagle dnagle@erols.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,886810eb067293ae X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: aerick@mail.wm.edu (Amy Rickard) Subject: Re: Rail to Tyson's Date: 1999/01/23 Message-ID: <36aa47a2.156519134@news.erols.com> X-Deja-AN: 436120599 References: <36AA3D30.F32EEA49@erols.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: F3lZpzW+wYjPU4nWGMZ3XYZvgve34tX7fyAZuqtQ3loRkaQhd3qRNg== Reply-To: aerick@mail.wm.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jan 1999 22:12:54 GMT Newsgroups: dc.driving