Angry toll road users who don’t want to underwrite a big chunk of the D.C. Metro rail expansion to Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia couldn’t convince the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their case.
The justices rejected a petition Oct. 7 from motorists challenging the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority over steep increases in tolls on a stretch of roadway between the Capital Beltway and Dulles. Toll receipts are to secure debt financing for the final leg of the Metro Silver Line rail project to the airport.
Toll users contend MWAA doesn’t have the authority under the separation of powers ...
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