Washington subway crash

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Originally Posted by tw

A new Metro line was constructed by a business school graduate.

I hear what you are saying, but this guy wasn't out there pumping concrete. He was sitting at his desk and on the phone.

The construction firm completed the line, and it was quite amazing to watch the construction. Metro looked at it and found many minor problems, and a punch list was created. The construction firm worked through the punch list and claims to have completed it. They turned the new line over to Metro for testing. And that's where we are now. Metro needs to do a few months of testing, and then they will open the line to the public.

We'll see in a couple months.

And yes, the line doesn't go all the way to the airport. Metro runs through several jurisdictions, and each jurisdiction needs to come up with funding, including the Feds and each state. The Dulles area (I can't remember which jurisdiction that is, maybe Fairfax County?) didn't want to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars right now to extend the line to the airport, so that part is on hold for now. It's pretty dumb, because extending the line to the airport is the main idea. Now it just goes to some of the neighborhoods on the way to the airport.