Steve Eldridge: Metro extension has long been planned, but it’s uncertain

Until I can come up with some clever name for a weekly compilation of readers’ thoughts and questions (“Mailbag Monday” or “Your Turn Tuesday” or “Write-in Wednesday”) I’ll just have to catch up as I can.

During the past few weeks I’ve received a number of interesting notes from our readers, including this one from Ihab who asks: “Is there any plans to extend the Metro line far beyond Fairfax? It seems that it can be easily extended to Centreville. The middle island in Route 66 west is wide enough to accommodate the Metro, and this will help reduce the traffic on Route 66 to Vienna Metro in the rush hours beside it can eliminate many metro bus lines that serves Vienna Metro station.”