The long delayed Silver Line metro extension to Wiehle avenue is on track, according to remarks made my Kaine. The Virginia governor gave no indications of what made him think so, but he did say “We have a standing conference call once a week to kind of monitor progress.”
The main delay in the orange line extension has been meeting the Federal Transit Administration’s cost effectiveness standards. Several hundred million dollars of the project will be funded a grant - and the agency has strict standards on total cost compared to estimated riders. Already $300 million have been shaved off, and the FTA will be announcing weather the revised project meets their cost standards.
“We have reason to think we will hear some sign, either, ‘Hey, you met [the cost-effective standard]’ or, ‘You still have some more work to do,’ sometime soon. But we feel very good about our submission right now,” Kaine says. WTOP reported on the original story.
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