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WTOP exclusive: Silver Line on track to open by July 4
Friday - 4/4/2014, 9:40pm  ET

Max Smith and Ari Ashe, wtop.com

WASHINGTON -- The Silver Line could be up and running by July 4 after significant progress throughout the last few weeks, sources familiar with the project tell WTOP.

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority continues to run tests on the tracks and the contractor building the Silver Line could get approval to turn the project over to Metro within the next two weeks.

Multiple sources tell WTOP that it's more likely that the Silver Line will be completed and certified before the end of the month than it being delayed into May. Once MWAA certifies the project as complete, it would turn over the project to Metro. Project Director Pat Nowakowski has told WTOP the time between certification and turnover to Metro would be quick.

Metro has said it could be up to 90 days after that before trains open for passengers, but Metro board members have told WTOP that Metro hopes to be able to open the line more quickly.

A source tells WTOP that Metro hopes to take only 60 days after getting control of the line, since they have been able to run extra tests during the project's long delay.

Metro General Manager Richard Sarles has told reporters that it could probably shed some time off the 90 day window, but has not specified how many days. Even if Metro takes the full 90 days, the Silver Line could open to passengers before the end of July.

The Silver Line was scheduled to open last year but was delayed several times during construction.

In February, the contractor building the line, Dulles Transit Partners, told MWAA that it had reached "substantial completion".

The Airports Authority found several problems with the construction, including speakers that posed a fire hazard and problems with communications cables. Other problems were found with the automatic train control system, escalators, water leaks, and permits.

Sources tell WTOP that Dulles Transit Partners, including the main contractor Bechtel Corporation, have worked quickly to resolve several of the issues identified. MWAA will run new tests on the tracks over the next couple weeks to check the progress on that work.

Under the contract, MWAA could fine DTP up to $25,000 per day if the project isn't complete by April 9, although that seems unlikely based on these developments. The MWAA Board of Directors will meet on April 16 to discuss the latest on the Silver Line.

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Breking news? You're spelling is broken like the Metro.

10 bux itll be delayed again! Time to take the 5A bitches!

FiveAYE Wrote:
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> 10 bux itll be delayed again! Time to take the 5A
> bitches!

Metro, obamacare, nothing seems to work well under these libs.

How much will it cost to ride the silver line from Reston to Vienna?

BREKING METRO Wrote:
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> Breking news? You're spelling is broken like the
> Metro.

So is your spelling

Inga Wrote:
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> BREKING METRO Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Breking news? You're spelling is broken like
> the
> > Metro.
>
> So is your spelling

Shut up you fucking racist republican.

LiberalAgenda Wrote:
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> Metro, obamacare, nothing seems to work well under
> these libs.

Really? How did Iraq and Tax Cuts for the Rich work out, asshole? How about Katrina and the waves of real estate and stock market losses? Republicans are fucking imbeciles.

MnkyD Wrote:
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> How much will it cost to ride the silver line from
> Reston to Vienna?

Well, you'd have to take an inbound Silver Line train to East Falls Church, then change trains and ride an outbound Orange Line train to Vienna. The fare would be based on the average of the track-miles actually involved in that trip and the much smaller as-the-crow-flies distance between the two stations. The off-peak fare would then be $1.70 for the first 3 miles, plus 23.7 cents each for each of miles 4, 5, and 6, plus 21 cents for each mile beyond 6. For peak fares, substitute $2.10, 31.6 cents, and 28 cents.

Anybody who lives near a Silver Line stop better start getting extra window bars, alarms, and ammo because the savage black criminals will have a whole new territory opened up for them.

MnkyD Wrote:
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> How much will it cost to ride the silver line from
> Reston to Vienna?

It will be cheaper to drive, and more convenient. Parking in Vienna is not a problem, its Vienna not DC.

The only reason I take the hauler is if I plan on drinking, or don't want to park in DC.

Born on the 4th of July. How fitting.

There will be many sparklers, bright flashes of lights, smoke and loud sounds to announce the arrival of the first train.

Of course this will all be due to substandard materials, design and workmanship resulting in complete failure of the system.

There may be fireworks off in the distance as well, non-related.

Motto: What's MATA now?

Looking at the 80' vertical horseshoe track section over Rt. 123-no thanks.

Nigs ride free Wrote:
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> Anybody who lives near a Silver Line stop better
> start getting extra window bars, alarms, and ammo
> because the savage black criminals will have a
> whole new territory opened up for them.

The warnings about helicopters circling over Centreville actually make more sense. For that matter, so do all the reports of Bigfoot sightings. But Lord knows, we all do want to protect your freedom to be a completely worthless fucktard.

metro dun goofed Wrote:
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> It will be cheaper to drive, and more convenient.

Only if the train happens to go nowhere near your destination. There is no station actually convenient to the Woodburn Center for Community Mental Health, for instance.

> Parking in Vienna is not a problem, its Vienna not DC.

Seriously? Parking at the Vienna Metro is easy until aboput 6:30 am. Streets within reasonable walking distance of the station are all in Residential Parking Permit Districts. You could always park out in the middle of nowhere every day. Then what would you do? How much do you like trudging through rain, wind, ice, and snow? Life can be difficult when you're an ignorant dumbfuck moron, I guess.

> The only reason I take the hauler is if I plan on
> drinking, or don't want to park in DC.

You know alcohol is served right here in Fairfax County.

It might be more convenient but it will definitely not be cheaper!
The cost of gasoline+insurance itself will be 2x as much as it will cost to use the metro.

Plus repairs and maintenance....

Cars are expensive

metro dun goofed Wrote:
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> > Reston to Vienna?
>
> It will be cheaper to drive, and more convenient.
> Parking in Vienna is not a problem, its Vienna not
> DC.
>
> The only reason I take the hauler is if I plan on
> drinking, or don't want to park in DC.

> Anybody who lives near a Silver Line stop better
> start getting extra window bars, alarms, and ammo
> because the savage black criminals will have a
> whole new territory opened up for them.

nah. If these "criminals" are not all over the Orange, Red, or any other existing line, why would they attack specifically the new Silver line?

x3TWc Wrote:
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> The cost of gasoline+insurance itself will be 2x
> as much as it will cost to use the metro. Plus
> repairs and maintenance....> Cars are expensive

Come on. You're expecting these weevils to have the intelligence of a 7th-grader. Not going to happen.

Mark R Wrote:
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> If these "criminals" are not all over the Orange, Red,
> or any other existing line, why would they attack
> specifically the new Silver line?

Why haven't they used cars or buses to plunder all these sweet targets that the Silver Line goes to?

The stupid just don't feel a need for what they say to make any actual sense at all. They just say this worthless garbage anyway. Total losers.

> It will be cheaper to drive, and more convenient.
> Parking in Vienna is not a problem, its Vienna not
> DC.
>

I hate driving in and out of DC during rush hour though, and parking is around $15/day as I recall. Add tolls, gas, you're close to $20. That's more than parking at metro ($5?), and a metro round trip ($11?), and a lot less headache.

Mark R Wrote:
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> I hate driving in and out of DC during rush hour though,

Auto repair bills. Problems with pills and drinking. Divorce. Nervous breakdowns. Suicide. These are the wages of driving into and out of DC at rush hour.

> ...and parking is around $15/day as I recall.
> Add tolls, gas, you're close to $20. That's more
> than parking at metro ($5?), and a metro round
> trip ($11?), and a lot less headache.

Then consider that so many downtown employers participate in one form or another of the SmartBenefits program that cuts your Metro commuting costs even further.

"Problems with pills and drinking. Divorce. Nervous breakdowns. Suicide....DC at rush hour."

LMFAO!!!!!

I hate driving in and out of DC during rush hour though, and parking is around $15/day as I recall. Add tolls, gas, you're close to $20. That's more than parking at metro ($5?), and a metro round trip ($11?), and a lot less headache.
>>>>>>>

Okay, go ahead and enjoy that. Standing because there are no seats available, being subjected to some punk standing next to you with his earbuds so loud that you hear the buzzing beat of his shitty music, having a fat hispanic woman that has no concept of deodorant on the other side of you and broken air conditioning on the hottest days of summer.

I'll stick to my heated leather seats in the winter cool A/C in the summer, XM radio and the ability to enjoy a nice beverage and snack.

ewTDkewTDk Wrote:
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> "Problems with pills and drinking. Divorce.
> Nervous breakdowns. Suicide....DC at rush hour."
> LMFAO!!!!!

Ask the mental health professionals who have to help clean up all these messes. They aren't laughing because they know better. You plainly don't.

Fuck Metro in the ass Wrote:
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> Okay, go ahead and enjoy that. Standing because
> there are no seats available, being subjected to
> some punk standing next to you with his earbuds so
> loud that you hear the buzzing beat of his shitty
> music, having a fat hispanic woman that has no
> concept of deodorant on the other side of you and
> broken air conditioning on the hottest days of
> summer.

LOL! And how many of these does it take to equal just one brother asshole rear-ending you and wiping out a bumper, both brake lights, and a quarter-panel or two? Do you have any idea how much the cost of insurance for the spiffy-mobile would go down by if only you stopped being such a jerk as to actually drive it to work? God, you're stupid!

> I'll stick to my heated leather seats in the
> winter cool A/C in the summer, XM radio and the
> ability to enjoy a nice beverage and snack.

Get any reading or e-mail done while you sit and stew in traffic, asshole? Or does your job not actually involve things like that?

LOL! And how many of these does it take to equal just one brother asshole rear-ending you and wiping out a bumper, both brake lights, and a quarter-panel or two? Do you have any idea how much the cost of insurance for the spiffy-mobile would go down by if only you stopped being such a jerk as to actually drive it to work? God, you're stupid!
>>>>>>>>>>>>

I can easily afford my auto insurance. If someone hits me, I'd get the car repaired and then trade it in. What's the big fucking deal? Besides, it hasn't happened in 13 years of commuting.

"The Silver Line could be up and running by July 4 after significant progress throughout the last few weeks, sources familiar with the project tell WTOP."

I think COULD is the operative word here.

It COULD also rain toads.

nig hauler passengers are tards Wrote:
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> I can easily afford my auto insurance. If someone
> hits me, I'd get the car repaired and then trade
> it in. What's the big fucking deal? Besides, it
> hasn't happened in 13 years of commuting.

Hey loser! It isn't all about you and your so transparently phony claims. One of the reasons why the actually wealthy remain actually wealthy is that they don't go around being stupid by wasting what they have -- such as by trading in a car just after an accident has popped onto a CarFax report, or by running ridiculously high auto insurance rates simply for the pleasure of being able to sit and stew in traffic. Five cycles per red light? Sorry, you beater-driving dumbfuck. The wealthy are waving at you out their subsidized Metro windows as they whiz in comfort past you. The reason why your insurance rates skyrocket when you drive to work is that the risks of accidents, theft, and vandalism also skyrocket as the result of your latent stupidity. It seems that you were just too absurdly slow to have picked up on any of that. Way to go, pinhead.

COULD is not WILL Wrote:
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> "The Silver Line could be up and running by July 4
> after significant progress throughout the last few
> weeks, sources familiar with the project tell
> WTOP."
>
> I think COULD is the operative word here.
> It COULD also rain toads.

You'll need to check on the nature of the future. Almost everything there is conditional from the standpoint of now. Does that sort of a concept simply sail right over your head?

Save A Buck Wrote:
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>
> You'll need to check on the nature of the future.
> Almost everything there is conditional from the
> standpoint of now. Does that sort of a concept
> simply sail right over your head?

Its call humor you jackass.

Another Metro Fanboy Wrote:
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> Its call humor you jackass.

Not by people with any actual sense of one. We call it lameness and ignorance. What is funny though is that you are seeming now to have some trouble with the past tense as well. Here's laughing at you, kid!

I said LMFAO because I couldn't agree more you jackass.



Save A Buck Wrote:
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> ewTDkewTDk Wrote:
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> > "Problems with pills and drinking. Divorce.
> > Nervous breakdowns. Suicide....DC at rush
> hour."
> > LMFAO!!!!!
>
> Ask the mental health professionals who have to
> help clean up all these messes. They aren't
> laughing because they know better. You plainly
> don't.

ewTDkewTDk Wrote:
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> I said LMFAO because I couldn't agree more you jackass.

One of us knows how to state a point with clarity. The other one doesn't. Those voices you hear in your head are not being recorded for playback later to others.