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Posted by Sand Box John on Fri Jun 17 08:39:50 2016 Silver Line Phase 2 Construction Ramps UpSteady progress continues on Phase 2 of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project with the design nearly complete and ample elements to capture curious eyes. Night crews work on the future Dulles Airport Station. Photo by Chuck Samuelson, Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project As construction continues to ramp up through 2016, commuters will see work along the entire 11.4 - mile stretch of Phase 2, which extends from the existing Wiehle-Reston East Station westward to Dulles International Airport and beyond to Ashburn in Loudoun County. "This is the biggest year so far for construction all along the Phase 2 alignment from Reston west to Ashburn," said Charles Stark, the executive director for the project. "there is a lot of work to be done." Currently, the project's design is 99.3 percent complete and construction is around 17 percent complete. Considerable work has been done at Dulles Airport and at the Innovation Center Station site, which is the first station to the east of the airport. Traversing the Dulles Airport property requires the use of an aerial guideway consisting of drilled shafts, columns, caps, girders, decks and other engineering elements. The shafts, columns and caps are mostly complete with about 200 girders set along the guideway. In addition to the aerial guideway, considerable work has been done at the Dulles Airport Station site adjacent to Garage 1. The pedestrian tunnel running from Garage 1 to the main terminal has been closed to permit construction of the station. Once work has finished, the tunnel will reopen to provide access for those parking in the garage as well as those arriving or departing via Metro. The future Innovation Center Station site has experienced the most progress, taking on the look of the Phase 1 Stations, while enabling and excavation work continues at most of the other five stations comprising Phase 2. Ashburn remains an exception but excavation work is expected to begin there later this year. Crews continue to supplement their restricted daytime schedules with night work along the alignment. The Journey Continues at Dulles Airport StationPictured below is the latest rendering of the highly anticipated Dulles Airport station. Dulles will be the only station to have different design aspects apart from the rest of the metrorail. The station intends to resemble the terminal's sleek and iconic design. Passengers will be able to access the terminal through a pre-existing tunnel originating at Parking Garage 1. The tunnel is closed during construction but when reopened it will provide ease of access with multiple moving walkways. Rendering of proposed Dulles Airport Station What's Happening at Horsepen Lake?Pictured below, the Capital Rail Constructors girder crew sets a precast concrete girder over Horsepen Lake at Dulles International Airport. This aerial guideway will carry metrorail cars to and from the new rail yard and maintenance facility that is being constructed as part of Phase 2 of the Silver Line. At 150 feet long, the four girders that will span Horsepen Lake are the longest and heaviest girders in the aerial guideway. Photo by: Jennifer Alcott, Capital Rail Constructors Highlights On June 3, reporters from Loudoun Now toured the construction site of Innovation Center Station.  On June 4, employees from the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project answered questions about Phase 2 and handed out goodies to the public at the 36th Annual Herndon Festival.  On May 23, members from the American Society of Civil Engineers took a closer look at Dulles Airport Station and the construction of the aerial guideway.  Did You Know?
Link to PDF version at Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project web site. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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Posted by Ancient Mariner on Fri Jun 17 08:57:46 2016, in response to WMATA: Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project progress update e-mail 06 13 2016, posted by Sand Box John on Fri Jun 17 08:39:50 2016. "The [Dulles Airport] station intends to resemble the terminal's sleek and iconic design."That made me laugh. How do they know what the station intends to do anyway? Did they interview it? Has it been posting on Twitter? I would be interested in knowing the intentions of other stations, for that matter. I wonder if, for example, some NYC stations intend to smell like sewers? |
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Re: WMATA: Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project progress update e-mail 06 13 2016 |
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Posted by Sand Box John on Fri Jun 17 10:04:16 2016, in response to Re: WMATA: Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project progress update e-mail 06 13 2016, posted by Ancient Mariner on Fri Jun 17 08:57:46 2016. "The [Dulles Airport] station intends to resemble the terminal's sleek and iconic design."That made me laugh. How do they know what the station intends to do anyway? Did they interview it? Has it been posting on Twitter? I would be interested in knowing the intentions of other stations, for that matter. I wonder if, for example, some NYC stations intend to smell like sewers? Semantics my friend. The architecture of the platform canopy was designed to "resemble" the sleek and iconic design of the terminal. When I first saw the station renderings I though they "nailed it". After further thought I think the canopy should have been a scaled down version of the terminal constructed from concrete. When the debate was raging over the surface location of the station I wrote an article on a schema I had that included platform canopies that resembled the terminal. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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Re: WMATA: Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project progress update e-mail 06 13 2016 |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Fri Jun 17 14:12:36 2016, in response to WMATA: Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project progress update e-mail 06 13 2016, posted by Sand Box John on Fri Jun 17 08:39:50 2016. Thank you for posting. |
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Re: WMATA: Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project progress update e-mail 06 13 2016 |
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Posted by Sand Box John on Fri Jun 17 21:47:43 2016, in response to Re: WMATA: Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project progress update e-mail 06 13 2016, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Fri Jun 17 14:12:36 2016. Thank you for posting.Your welcome. I thought the photographer that took this picture added a nice tough by shooting it just as the airplane was on final to 19C. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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