According to the Washington Post Newspaper, government and project sources said the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) remain skeptical of the plan to extend Metrorail to Dulles International Airport and might reject it, even though their consultants recently found that the proposal meets requirements for full funding. The concern is about millions of dollars in cost overruns and several years delay in completing the project as was done on the Big Dig project in Boston, run by the contractor in charge of extending metro rail to Dulles Airport project.

The Virginia, Maryland & D.C. mayor are urging the FTA to approve the rail line. There has been more than 40 years of efforts to connect the nation’s capital by rail to the area’s largest airport to transform Tysons Corner Virginia to a Metro_accessible downtown.

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