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Posted by Sand Box John on Sun Mar 25 20:12:26 2007, in response to Re: [Poll] Who will be the first in the nation to expand their Heavy Rail system?, posted by J trainloco on Sun Mar 25 12:33:33 2007. Yeah. How long do they plan on construction for WMATA's extension to take? Phase II of the SAS has always seemed to be slated to take aeons.The folks over at the construction consortium of Bechtel and Washington Group International formally know as Dulles Transit Partners are shooting for 2012 opening to Wiehle Avenue in Reston and 2015 to Ryan Road in Ashburn. At present no ground breaking date has been announced. This is all based on if all the parties can come to an agreement by April 5th. After April 5th I have no idea how far into the future the opening would take place or even if the project gets postponed indefinitely. Under the schedule published in summer of 2003 construction was to start last fall and the extension was to be a single phase project with an opening in early summer of 2009. In 2004 the schedule was modified to a two phase project with phase I to Wiehle Avenue opening in 2009 and phase II to Ryan Road in Ashburn 2015. The reason why the opening date for Phase II was not pushed into the future as would be expected after phase I was delayed, is because no federal capitol funding grants will be used to pay for the construction of phase II. The federal funding grant share for Phase II will be paid for with bonds sold by the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (WMAA) that will be retied from airport and Dulles Toll Road revenues. WMAA has been collecting increased tolls to pay its share of phase II sense 05 22 2005. Dulles Transit Partners is presently working on the final engineering, cost estimates for construction contract bidding advertisements are not ready. Because of the fact that nothing is firm I have heard no noise from any the area contractors that would likely work on the project. Most of the area contractors will be wrapping up their Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Springfield Interchange projects around the time the first contracts are advertised, that is provide an agreement can be reach with all of the parties involved. Do tell. Like I said that commentary will be posted in a different thread. |
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