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The Virginia legislative vote is a victory for taxpayers.

Despite the WASHINGTON POST's comical Editorial this week suggesting that MWAA was 'on time and 'on budget' with the Silver Line...thinking people know otherwise. Even the POST's Metro reporters have written otherwise. It appears the POST's Editorial Board does not read their own newspaper.

Similarly Loudoun County's re-evalauation is a smart move for taxpayers as well. The price of this boondoggle may be too high for commuters to pay and while MWAA flaunts Virginia's Right To Work Laws then they have proven an unworthy partner in this whole process.

We often read here on this blog that expected tax revenues from new, and higher density, projects more than offsets concerns about the costs. Well, that is for the jurisdictions to decide. Simply because something sounds good on paper in one decade does not make it true in the next.

No doubt funding sources will be found in some form...but if not...this should be a lesson about construction for the sake of hubris over common sense...and political considerations over need.

by Pelham1861 on Apr 19, 2012 10:11 am • link • report

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