If the Loudoun County Republicans now running things have any sense of fiscal restraint and ethics they’ll run like scalded dogs away from this POS.
For years I used mass transit to commute into DC, starting with picking up an express bus at the Herndon/Monroe Park and Ride that’s pretty close to the Fairfax/Loudoun County line and taking it into West Falls Church Metro.
Setting aside how TPTB have been slowly jacking up taxes, bus fares and Dulles Toll Road tolls to pay for building the “Silver Line”, I figured that if I was forced to actually use the thing I’d see my daily commuting costs go up about 50% (largely due to having to pay the confiscatory parking rates Metro charges for its garages) and an addition 20 minutes tacked each way onto my commute (since the Silver Line would run a lot slower than the bus due to the additional stops and the “detour” through Tysons).
AND I’d be saddled with Metro’s infamous reliability issues for just about my entire commute, rather than 2/3rds of it. Metro can’t manage the system it currently HAS, and treats it more like a Great Society welfare program (obscenely generous union contracts and all that) than a real transit business ... and they expect taxpayers and riders to just trust them to manage a 25+ mile extension out past Dulles?!?
It’s about time someone stood up and told them “NO.” Hopefully this new crowd in Loudoun will be the ones to do that.