A Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority committee voted in favor of an underground station at Dulles International Airport, ignoring pleas from Virginia counties that will shoulder the additional $330 million in construction costs.
The authority’s Board of Directors must still approve the design, which committee Chairwoman Mame Reiley said is a more pedestrian-friendly station. With the underground station, the Metro trains would drop passengers off about 500 feet closer to the airport than an above-ground, elevated station next to a Dulles parking garage, an option Reiley said would provide “inferior” service.
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