Dulles Airport will be the better for this new rail line. I am sure airport income will double or even triple. There are those on this airline list that may be able to give us more facts on this new work. Bob BOB FLETCHER US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS Military Design Section, 10th Floor S.W. SACRAMENTO DISTRICT, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, 95814-2922 PH. (916) 557-7235 -----Original Message----- From: Fletcher, Robert SPK Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:46 AM To: 'The Railroad List'; 'Joe C.' Subject: RE: Source is Destination: Freedom - Revenue rises at Amtrak to $487 million (2 Amtrak stories) Joe, Thanks you very much for sending this post out. This will confirm the idea of RRs going to airports that was a discussion point a few weeks ago, when folks were pointing out what airports HAD rail transportation to the airport. Thanks again, Bob BOB FLETCHER US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS Military Design Section, 10th Floor S.W. SACRAMENTO DISTRICT, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, 95814-2922 PH. (916) 557-7235 -----Original Message----- From: Joe C. [mailto:railien@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:07 PM To: RAILROAD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Source is Destination: Freedom - Revenue rises at Amtrak to $487 million (2 Amtrak stories) Source - Destination: Freedom http://www.nationalcorridors.org/df/df01262004.shtml ======================================================================= Revenue rises at Amtrak to $487 million Amtrak financial numbers continue to improve. For the fiscal year through December 2003, its total operating revenue was $487,068,000. The carrier had expected to earn only $465,132,000. Operating expenses totaled $757,345,000 whereas Amtrak had planned on spending $779,023,000. Ridership was up, at 6,338,202 people, even though management had expected some 5,791,586. Its on-time performance was still off at 74.2 percent. The system goal is 85.0 percent. ======================================================================== Trains may roll to Dulles airport By Wes Vernon, Washington Bureau Chief Rail is back on track, to Dulles International Airport. That s the word from Gerald Connolly, the Fairfax, Va. Board of Supervisors chairman. Barely a month after taking office, the top man in a key Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. was able to report that a group representing 800 landowners in the area of the huge Tyson s Corner shopping mall have petitioned Fairfax County to set up a special tax district for commercial property owners, who would pay an additional real estate tax to extend the D.C. area s Metrorail subway system from Falls Church to Reston. Only last month, the Herndon, Va. town council bailed out of a previous construction plan, fearing that their taxpayers would kick in their share of the tab only to risk ending up with no Metro reaching their area at the farther west end of the line. Under the new plan from the landowners group, LEADER (Landowners Economic Alliance for the Dulles Extension of Rail), and assuming property owners in the eastern segment (the Tyson s area and mileage closest in to D.C.) give their approval, they would pay for the tracks that would reach them. The farther out suburbs could create their own tax district, and contribute to the second phase of construction of the line, but those landowners would get their money back if federal funding for the leg is not secured by 2006. Connolly told the Washington Post that the western landowners have indicated a firm commitment to proceed on heels of the first [phase]. The entire line, when and if both segments are built, will be 23 miles long. Without a local financing plan to demonstrate a serious intent to go through with it, the rail extension to Dulles, which has been on drawing boards for decades, would not go forward and would miss a deadline to go after federal funding this spring. It takes a majority of the Tyson s area property owners to get the plan off the drawing boards and on toward reality. 63 percent of the property owners in the Tyson s area signed the petition. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/