PROJECT STATUS

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PROJECT STATUS
Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project
Dulles Corridor Rail Association

• July 11, 2002

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Overview

• I. Background
• II. Draft EIS
• III. Financial Analysis
• IV. Next Steps for Project
• Appendices

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I. Background
The 95 Draft EIS is so named to allow for FTA
review with comments incorporated, it becomes
a 100 Draft EIS.
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I. Background

• MIS (1994-1997)
• Elimination of various alternatives
• Recommendation of seamless rail
• MIS Supplement (1999)
• Recommendation of Phased Implementation Program
• Phase I Express Bus Service (1999)
• Phase II Enhanced Express Bus Service
  (2001)
• Phase III Bus Rapid Transit
• Phase IV-A Metrorail to Tysons Corner/BRT to
  Loudoun County
• Phase IV-B Metrorail to Dulles Airport
  and Loudoun County

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I. Background

• PE/NEPA Participants (2000-2003)
• FTA as Federal lead agency
• Virginia DRPT as project sponsor
• WMATA as technical manager
• Public Involvement
• Agency Coordination
• Draft EIS
• General Plans
• Public Hearing
• Final EIS
• Steering Committee for policy and financial
  planning
• DRPT, WMATA, Fairfax Co, Loudoun Co, MWAA, Town
  of Herndon

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II. Draft EIS

• Purpose Need of Project
• Alternatives Considered
• Social Effects
• Environmental Effects
• Economic Effects
• Secondary and Cumulative Effects
• Transportation Effects
• Financial Analysis
• Evaluation of Alternatives

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II. Draft EIS

• ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED
• Baseline / No Build
• Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) to Loudoun County
• Metrorail through Tysons / BRT for remainder
• Metrorail to Dulles Airport and Loudoun County
• Phased Implementation (BRT as an interim step to
  Metrorail) is included as an option

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II. Draft EIS

• What is Bus Rapid Transit?
• BRT is special bus system, using the reserved
  lanes of the Dulles Airport Access Road.
• BRT would have the same hours and frequency as
  Metrorail.
• BRT could have one to five Metrorail-like
  stations, with the same fare structure and
  collection.
• Customers, transferring between BRT and
  Metrorail, would bypass the fare gates of West
  Falls Church Station.

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II. Draft EIS

• Transportation Effects - Opening Year Transit
  Trips in Corridor
• No-Build 2001 12,000 (Phase I Express Feeder
  Bus Only)
• No-Build 2006 17,100 (Phase II Express Feeder
  Bus Only)
• BRT 2006 30,300 of which 4,500 are new
  transit trips
• Metrorail/ BRT 2006 50,800 of which 18,800 are
  new transit trips
• Metrorail 2010 71,900 of which 32,700 are new
  transit trips
• For the Build Alternatives, the transit trips are
  the increase in trips over and above the Baseline
  / No-Build trips for that year.
• Total Trips for BRT (30,300) and Metrorail / BRT
  (50,800) include ridership from the previous
  phase, diverted trips from the Metrorail Orange
  Line stations of Vienna, Dunn Loring, and West
  Falls Church, and new transit trips. For
  Metrorail 2010, Total Trips are made up of the
  same elements noted above plus trips resulting
  from additional growth in population and
  employment.

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II. Draft EIS

• Transportation Effects Year 2025 Transit Trips
  in Corridor
• No-Build 24,400 (Phase II Express Feeder
  Bus Only)
• BRT 49,400 of which 12,500 are new
  transit trips
• Metrorail / BRT 70,500 of which 25,100 are new
  transit trips
• Metrorail 86,900 of which 38,300 are new
  transit trips
• Metrorail 101,000 with density bonuses
  approved by Counties
• Note that the BRT or Metrorail trips in 2025 are
  those trips over and above the Baseline/No-Build
  in that year. The Baseline includes the
  Corridors express and feeder bus service, which
  would be carrying an increasing number of riders
  over time.

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II. Draft EIS
Transportation Effects Transit Trips in
Corridor
Average Weekday Transit Trips in Thousands
The chart shows that only Metrorail has the
capacity to respond to the Corridor travel
demand, which increases over time with Corridor
growth.
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II. Draft EIS

• Adding Capacity to the Corridor
• Metrorail (at 9,600 passengers per hour) provides
  capability to increase person-throughput by 60
  over the Dulles Toll Road (at 2,300 vehicles per
  lane per hour)
• BRT (at 2,370 passengers per hour) by 10.

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III. Financial Analysis Capital Costs

• The Capital Funding Plan of the Draft EIS is in
  accord with WMATA Board Resolution 2000-35 on
  the funding sources of capital costs Federal New
  Starts program, Commonwealth of Virginia, Fairfax
  County, Loudoun County and the Metropolitan
  Washington Airports Authority.
• The Non-Federal and Federal shares reflect
  Steering Committee direction and Congressional
  guidance.
• BRT 40 Non Federal, 60 Federal (formerly
  20, 80)
• RAIL 50 Non Federal, 50 Federal
• Capital cost estimates have been refined since
  the MIS and its Supplement.
• The estimates do not include costs of financing.
• All dollar amounts have been escalated to
  year-of-expenditure (YOE).
• The alternatives in the next table have the
  uppermost capital costs among the Build
  Alternatives.

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III. Financial Analysis Capital Costs
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III. Financial Analysis Capital Costs

• The capital cost estimates of the Draft EIS have
  increased over estimates of the MIS and its
  Supplement, mainly due to the following
• Project not entirely within public right-of-way
• Addition of Federal requirement for claims
  contingency
• Addition of a market allowance due to regions
  mega-projects
• Differing escalation methods
• Higher cost of BRT vehicles
• Addition of fourth station in Tysons Corner
• Larger yard

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IV. Next Steps
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IV. Next Steps (Continued)
Preliminary Engineering Local Funding
Agreements Final Design under Design/Build Right
-of-Way Acquisition Federal Full Funding Grant
Agreement Construction
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Public Contact Information

• Written Comments Mr. John Dittmeier, P.E.WMATA
  Acting Project ManagerDulles Corridor Rapid
  Transit Project1550 Wilson Blvd., Suite
  300Arlington, VA 22209
• Telephone [phone]
• e-mail dullescorridor_at_aol.com
• Web www.dullestransit.com

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Appendices

• Maps
• BRT Alternative
• BRT/Metrorail Alternative
• Metrorail Alternative
• Tysons Corner MIS Alignment T1
• Tysons Corner MIS Alignment Variations T6
• Tysons Corner MIS Alignment Variations T9
• Tysons Corner Loop Alignment T4
• Metrorail Service and Inspection Yard Sites
• Highlights of 95 Draft EIS

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Metrorail Alternative

• Tysons Corner MIS Alignment

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Metrorail Alternative

• Tysons Corner MIS Alignment Variations

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Metrorail Alternative

• Tysons Corner MIS Alignment Variations

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Metrorail Alternative

• Tysons Corner Loop Alignment

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Metrorail Service and Inspection Yard Sites
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Highlights of Draft EIS

• Social Effects
• Limited business displacements in Tysons Corner
• No residential displacements
• Localized visual effects related to aerial
  alignments within Tysons Corner
• Environmental Effects
• Total wetland effects less than 1.5 acres
• No adverse localized air quality effects
• No severe noise effects elsewhere, mitigation of
  moderate effects by sound barriers

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Highlights of Draft EIS

• Economic Effects
• Beneficial activity and tax revenues
• Secondary and Cumulative Effects
• Related to population and employment increase,
  due to Project services, traffic, visual at
  stations
• Changes in land use recognized by County plans