Kaine, Allen agree on one thing: Dulles Rail

U.S. Senate candidates Tim Kaine and George Allen have staked out widely different positions on hot-button issues like health care as they gear up for the 2012 campaign in Virginia. But they’re nearly eye-to-eye on the latest controversy in Northern Virginia — the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

The state’s 2006 decision to transfer authority of the Dulles Metrorail project to MWAA is now being re-examined after the board bucked state and local officials with its vote to build an underground station at Washington Dulles International Airport. That decision will cost local and state officials an extra $330 million for a project that has already suffered a series of setbacks and cost increases.