Dulles Metro; To D.C. on foot
Dulles Metro
Projections now indicate that Georgetown students won’t be riding the Metro to Dulles Airport until 2015 at the earliest.
Plans for a Metrorail extension to Dulles Airport have been delayed by deliberations over building a tunnel under Tysons Corner, as opposed to an above-ground track, which will be one of eleven station stops along the proposed 23-mile Dulles line.
Sue Kuntz, acting community outreach manager for the Dulles Corridor Metrorail project, said that the tunnel proposal caused “about a six-month setback.”
“The tunnel cost had to be evaluated, then the governor had to decide [whether] to go ahead and keep the original plans,” Kuntz said.
Due to “cost considerations,” Virginia Governor Tim Kaine decided to stay with the initial plans for an above-ground track in Tysons Corner she said.
Construction on the first phase of the project, which will extend the line out to Wiehle, Va., was supposed to begin early next year. It is now expected to start late next year or early 2008.
To D.C. on foot
Georgetown’s STAND and Armenian Student organization joined George Washington University students Nov. 5 to welcome six Armenian-American students who walked from Los Angeles to D.C. to call attention to the genocide in Darfur.
The students’ march began on June 27 and ended Nov. 1. After their arrival at GW, the University hosted a discussion forum on genocide with Journey for Humanity, the genocide-awareness organization that sponsored the students.
“Walking is symbolic of genocide,” Edward Majian, one of the marchers, told the GW Hatchet. “We are walking in an attempt to be in solidarity with those people,” he said, referring to Darfur victims as well as those of past genocides.
On its web site, Journey for Humanity kept an online report and diary of the six students, in which they reflected not only on Darfur genocide but on the more obscure Armenian genocide of 1915-1923.
