The Metro will bring new jobs to Loudoun, so not only will it make peoples commutes better and free up traffic on our roads by removing cars from the road, but it will let some people work closer to home and remove even more cars from the road that way.

Yes I totally agree...I know it will make my commute far more enjoyable, and a lot less stressful.

Thank you for continuing your paranoid delusions even in the face of proof. I welcome the Metro.

Ab, our Fairfax and Loudoun County leaders were worried about the cost of Dulles Rail Phase II in early 2011, and then the FTA showed up and dumped the Rt 28 rail station and the five parking garages onto Fairfax and Loudoun Counties - and our county leaders suddely liked the idea? What kind of lunacy is that?

All that purported concern about the price, and yet no concern that the pricetag appears to be nearly two times what it should be? What's up with that?

This thing is a ripoff, our leaders have played every game to support it, the news media is complicit, and now Loudoun County needs to say NO.

Bob - breathe in, breathe out...in......out.....everything is going to be okay. the sun will come up tomorrow, Metro or no. Life is too short. god bless you - we love you buddy !

You in Loudoun County are the ones who should be paranoid, ab. Do you know that you will not only be responsible for cost overruns in Dulles Rail Phase II - you are also responsible for 4.8% of any cost overrun of Phase I - and Phase I is already $150 million over budget (that we know about). Most people probably think that Phase I is a Fairfax County problem. SURPRISE!!!

You make it sound as if someone is going to come up to me and ask me for a million dollars tomorrow. Is it going to be expensive? Yes. Will they find a way to fund it? Yes. Will it break the citizens of Loudoun County? No.

Yes Bob I am sure they will start taking a new tax out of our paychecks called the Metro tax and it will be 98 percent of our pay. Then we will all starve to death and the planet will be over run with aliens that feed on human corpses. The truth is it's these aliens that want to build the Metro in the first place, so they can enslave humans, watch us all die, then move in to feed on us. I am so glad that the human race has someone like you, smart enough to see impending disaster such as this ahead of time. The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!!!!!

If this ripoff is approved, the costs will be a lot higher than they should have been, because the people pushing for it mysteriously did not care about the bloated pricetags - except for the three that MWAA and the FTA wanted them to care about - the underground airport rail station, and the Rt 28 station, and the five Phase II parking garages.

People were tricked into approving the horrible three-mile elevated track and elevated station plan at Dulles Airport. You think that was an accident? And remarkably, the FTA pretended (and people believed) that the Rt 28 parking garage and the five parking garage costs just went away, when in fact those problems were dumped onto Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. And that's exactly when the Counties suddenly liked the plan! (You just can't make this stuff up. Maybe the Counties wanted to give those jobs to certain connected friends? You tell me.)

This project represents everything that is wrong with modern economics - false promises and artificial hyperinflation used as a justification for thoughtless borrowing and massive overfinancing to pay a ridiculously excessive price, followed by major economic problems, defaults, bankruptcy and takeover.

After the housing bubble, one might think that people learned this lessson. But this rail project demonstrates that they did not. And this ripoff was supported by complicit political and business 'leaders', and by complicit news media. People need to learn from this.

What a very good point. As a side note I hope that everyone is doing well. I hope that the power comes back on soon. Stay safe everyone.

Yeah, they certainly wouldn't want to be on an air conditioned bus. They prefer limited destination options and higher prices, I guess.

So I'd like to understand this a bit more. Who was the single candidate that voted against this? Why?

My concern is that I live close to the proposed last stop of Metro Loudoun Station. I moved there 8 years ago because I worked in Ashburn and now in Chantilly. Many residents near Loudoun Station work at Verizon and AOL.

If I understand this correctly, I would be concerned if we were to foot a larger portion of the bill for the everyone else. It's difficult to tell what the new district is from the attached picture.

To KSR, Supervisor Delgaudio voted against it. As for the district it's not set in stone yet. They must still go through a public process during which the boundaries could be adjusted. The goal was to focus the burden near the stations, but also avoid as much existing residential as possible. Even if the board supports the same tax district plan tomorrow (which will only come up if they opt in), there are still steps to take before approving and instituting it.

It is not surprising that federal funds are not provided for Phase II of this ripoff. The population density does not justify this project, so there is no federal money for it, nor even a federal loan of any sort. Loudoun County should take the hint, because this rule is all about the risk of financial failure of the project because it does not have enough of a financial base. Note that Loudoun County does not even have significant business at the rail stations to help pay for this project, and the project costs 1.7 to 2 times what it should, and its funding plan is bogus, as you will discover in January when the tolls skyrocket, and people scream (you haven't seen ANYTHING yet), and Fairfax and Loudoun Counties float Billion dollar bonds to pay down the tolls, and foist the 50 to 70 million dollar payments for that onto the taxpayers for fifty years or more. People, you are being robbed.

A dedicated-road bus backbone in the rail right of way should have been used to get this rail route started, and that was the plan more than ten years ago, until a crooked political circus, typified by the MWAA board that the DOT Inspector General recently exposed, pushed for rail, and got us stuck with it in Fairfax County.

The argument about how much the rail would boost business real estate values was scuttled some time ago, because people would ask, "Why should WE pay so much for this?" And they might say "Well, let those business property owners borrow to pay NOW, because they will be the major beneficiaries of this project." But you will not think of this until it is too late. You will find that their contribution will have been capped, as it was done in Fairfax County. The sad truth is that those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

This could all have been avoided if a BUS road was installed in the rail right of way, instead of rail. Then business could have built up, and you would not be facing this dilemma. But Loudoun County is creating this problem for you, by rushing to approve this premature rail project. This region would have done better to build a dedicated road bus system, and use it for twenty years,until it is actually ready for rail - and then convert it to rail bit by bit as you can afford it. But no.

In the end, you will get the government you deserve, handing you the taxes you are asking for now.

Congratulations; you have discovered the straw-man argument. Who knows, some day you might even argue with something that I actually said.

Vineet - well said (lmao)

Wow.. I'll jump in here... If the silver line could be entirely funded by its ridership, then I'd have no issue with it other than the increase in property crime that it brings. As it stands, we have now committed to a finacial hole that the district will not be able to pay, and will reply on our General funds to support. Congrats Pro Metro folks... you've just taken funds from our children and schools.

Sorry, but this rail project is no solution, it only adds to the problem. Just say NO!