“Metrorail-to-Dulles hasn’t attained the legendary status of the Big Dig yet,” writes James Bacon in a Washington Times oped. “ But give it time.”

Notwithstandiing the “prairie fire of protest across Fairfax and Loudoun counties” over the transit project’s escalating price tag and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s (MWAA) boneheaded decision to require a Project Labor Agreement in a right-to-work state, Bacon lasers in on the fundamental illegality of former governor Tim Kaine’s decision to hand over the Dulles Toll Road, a revenue-producing state asset, to the unelected MWAA Board without the consent of the General Assembly: