DC Public Transit: The Silver Line

So - remember how I complained about the funding for a line to Dulles Airport being held up by the FTA? Apparently, they've finally seen good sense, and approved funding for the Silver Line to Tyson's Corner. For more on this one, I actually found an excellent blog called "Track Twenty-Nine" focusing on urban planning and public transit - run by a gentleman named Matt at U of Maryland. check it out here: http://tracktwentynine.blogspot.com/

The first three posts for April 30th are all worth a read - one is on Obama's stand on the new "repeal the gas tax for the summer" craze coming from McCain and Clinton. The other two are on the Silver Line.

I happen to agree with the general thrust behind his posts - although one of the serious problems for longer-distance transportation in the US is the lack of evenly distributed, high population density areas. Just look at a population map of the US and compare it to Europe. Of course, that doesn't mean we couldn't be doing much better than we are now...

Well, one change is better than none. I'd still really like to see the purple line.