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One pays $17 a day to park in Dulles' long-term garages and $10 per day for the Economy lot. The charges for hourly and valet parking are even higher. I cannot imagine that such rates don't cover all of the Airport's incremental costs and contributions to capital recovery and overhead.

DTR drivers pay the costs for operating and maintaining the Toll Road, capital recovery and overhead, plus the lion's share of the costs to build the Silver Line, for which they aren't benefiting, because the added growth at Tysons and Reston will more than make up for the cars taken off the DTR by Dulles Rail.

In the view of the Fairfax and Loudoun County boards of supervisors and VDOT, fairness dictates that MWAA either cancel the underground station or pay for it instead of dumping more costs on the DTR drivers. As for MWAA's paying for the additional $3 million, those travelers and others who take rail to the Airport and use the underground station are the best candidates to pay the added costs. How does someone who drives and pays parking, takes a bus or a cab and doesn't use the underground station paying for that station become fair?

by tmtfairfax on Apr 20, 2011 3:51 pm • link • report