It’s highly debatable whether the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is “a triumph of good transportation policy” or “free from the political skirmishing that sometimes engulfs neighboring local governments,” as former MWAA board member Robert Clarke Brown claims in his Oct. 2 letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. But there’s no arguing with Brown that the “fundamental problem” facing the Silver Line is “the terrible burden the current plan of finance places on the local community.”

The Washington Examiner has repeatedly editorialized that forcing Dulles Toll Road drivers and local taxpayers to pay nearly 100 percent of the $3 billion cost of Phase 2 is both unfair and unprecedented. So it’s gratifying that the former investment banker appointed by President Clinton and reappointed by President George W. Bush finally acknowledges this injustice as well.