The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to pay the county’s share of Metro construction through Tysons Corner, Reston, and on to Dulles airport, rejecting the arguments of developers and some county residents that the tunnel option through Tysons warrants further study.
I can’t say that I’m with the tunnel supporters (who only got organized once certain businesses got on board) on this one. Tysons is an uncoordinated, traffic-choked mess, and I don’t have any hopes that burying the subway line will make it that much easier to rebuild the core to improve pedestrian access. The only county resident that I know personally who has spoken in support of the tunnel drives everywhere in a tank of an SUV. I suspect she’s more concerned about construction interfering with her commute than she is about trying to make Tysons Corner people-friendly.