Mwaa Gets Control of Dulles Toll Road ; Will Use Revenue to Pay for Metrorail Extension

The Washington Times › March 28, 2006

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Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine yesterday signed an agreement allowing the group running the region's two airports to take over the Dulles Toll Road and use revenue from tolls to pay for Metrorail's extension to Washington Dulles International Airport.

Giving the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) control of a massive $4 billion project to extend Metrorail into Loudoun County is likely to speed up completion of the project and could reduce costs, supporters of the governor's decision said.

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Mwaa Gets Control of Dulles Toll Road ; Will Use Revenue to Pay for Metrorail Extension

But it also gives the airports authority, which operates Dulles and Ronald Reagan Washington National airports, the ability to increase tolls along the road, which winds through a surging technology corr...

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