Dulles Airport Metro Station location

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I think the bigger point is, WMATA and MTAA had the opportunity to do something that would be convenient. They chose to add a walkway so that you would "know your place" in the hierarchy.

As they should have. Why is that a problem for you?

Planet destroying, population murdering drivers should be punished for making poor transportation choices. WMATA riders and those who don't drive to the airport should be rewarded.

Sorry. Cars are here to stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The posters overreacting to the distance between the Metro station and terminal gave me a good laugh. Have any of you actually been to the airport? Have any of you actually made the walk between the station and the terminal? I fly out of IAD frequently and park in the daily garage right behind the Metro station. It's five minutes. Tops. A well-lit underground tunnel with people movers connects the station and terminal.

People need to get a grip.

Look at it this way: IAD is so far out if the city that people will have plenty of time to rest up before that 5 minute walk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The posters overreacting to the distance between the Metro station and terminal gave me a good laugh. Have any of you actually been to the airport? Have any of you actually made the walk between the station and the terminal? I fly out of IAD frequently and park in the daily garage right behind the Metro station. It's five minutes. Tops. A well-lit underground tunnel with people movers connects the station and terminal.

People need to get a grip.

Yes and how about giving credit to the people in charge for saving $300 million and not building a station underground.

Once they decided not to remove the parking lot or build the metro station through the parking lot , then option they chose was a good option. It's a 5 minute walk using current infrastructure. They did a good job.
And BTW a shout out to the designers of the airport back in 1963 where they designated a right of way for rail so they never had to actually widen the highway to build it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The posters overreacting to the distance between the Metro station and terminal gave me a good laugh. Have any of you actually been to the airport? Have any of you actually made the walk between the station and the terminal? I fly out of IAD frequently and park in the daily garage right behind the Metro station. It's five minutes. Tops. A well-lit underground tunnel with people movers connects the station and terminal.

People need to get a grip.

Yes and how about giving credit to the people in charge for saving $300 million and not building a station underground.

Once they decided not to remove the parking lot or build the metro station through the parking lot , then option they chose was a good option. It's a 5 minute walk using current infrastructure. They did a good job.
And BTW a shout out to the designers of the airport back in 1963 where they designated a right of way for rail so they never had to actually widen the highway to build it.

God forbid someone with a car has to make a five minute walk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The posters overreacting to the distance between the Metro station and terminal gave me a good laugh. Have any of you actually been to the airport? Have any of you actually made the walk between the station and the terminal? I fly out of IAD frequently and park in the daily garage right behind the Metro station. It's five minutes. Tops. A well-lit underground tunnel with people movers connects the station and terminal.

People need to get a grip.

Yes and how about giving credit to the people in charge for saving $300 million and not building a station underground.

Once they decided not to remove the parking lot or build the metro station through the parking lot , then option they chose was a good option. It's a 5 minute walk using current infrastructure. They did a good job.
And BTW a shout out to the designers of the airport back in 1963 where they designated a right of way for rail so they never had to actually widen the highway to build it.

God forbid someone with a car has to make a five minute walk.

Uh, they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The posters overreacting to the distance between the Metro station and terminal gave me a good laugh. Have any of you actually been to the airport? Have any of you actually made the walk between the station and the terminal? I fly out of IAD frequently and park in the daily garage right behind the Metro station. It's five minutes. Tops. A well-lit underground tunnel with people movers connects the station and terminal.

People need to get a grip.

Yes and how about giving credit to the people in charge for saving $300 million and not building a station underground.

Once they decided not to remove the parking lot or build the metro station through the parking lot , then option they chose was a good option. It's a 5 minute walk using current infrastructure. They did a good job.
And BTW a shout out to the designers of the airport back in 1963 where they designated a right of way for rail so they never had to actually widen the highway to build it.

God forbid someone with a car has to make a five minute walk.

And God forbid you check your facts before posting and sounding like an idiot.

Most of IAD’s parking is more than a five-minute walk from the terminal. That even includes some of the spaces in the surface lot in front of the terminal, where weather and traffic can slow one’s walking pace.

[Anonymous]

Yeah the news made it sound like it's a lot further from the terminal than it actually is. I've done that walk from the daily garage several times. If I had more luggage than I could reasonably transfer from the station to the terminal, I probably wouldn't be taking the metro anyway!

I'm out in MoCo now so probably won't be using the metro to Dulles but would have when I lived in DC or Arlington. Back in the day I would take the bus out there for international trips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I haven’t read all the comments, but posting this incase someone else hasn’t. There is a tunnel connecting the new metro station to the airport with moving walkways. I read that it’s a 4 minute walk (or less).

I think the bigger point is, WMATA and MTAA had the opportunity to do something that would be convenient. They chose to add a walkway so that you would "know your place" in the hierarchy.

OMG, I walk that tunnel all the time from Garage 1. It is practically nothing... almost as easy as Reagan. You're going to spend ten times the time walking around the actual airport.

[Anonymous]

The tunnel from the metro station to the lower level of the terminal is FANTASTIC! It’s soooooooo easy!

Anyone still complaining about the station being too far from the terminal has obviously never used it yet, and they’re speaking out of sheer ignorance.

[Anonymous]

COMPare it to the BWI train station...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The posters overreacting to the distance between the Metro station and terminal gave me a good laugh. Have any of you actually been to the airport? Have any of you actually made the walk between the station and the terminal? I fly out of IAD frequently and park in the daily garage right behind the Metro station. It's five minutes. Tops. A well-lit underground tunnel with people movers connects the station and terminal.

People need to get a grip.

Yes and how about giving credit to the people in charge for saving $300 million and not building a station underground.

Once they decided not to remove the parking lot or build the metro station through the parking lot , then option they chose was a good option. It's a 5 minute walk using current infrastructure. They did a good job.
And BTW a shout out to the designers of the airport back in 1963 where they designated a right of way for rail so they never had to actually widen the highway to build it.

God forbid someone with a car has to make a five minute walk.

Uh, they do.

+1 That PP is an idiot. Tries to snark and completely misses the mark because they don’t know what they are talking about. 😂

[Anonymous]

Imagine how I feel being a native Loudouner and having to deal with all this suburbanization and yankee transplants becoming the majority. Wish I could go back to times where Northern Virginia still retained some it’s dixie charm. the good ol’ 80s where there were 4 high schools and ashburn was mainly dairy farms and kids would hang out in downtown leesburg after school. i hope western loudoun becomes its own county and gets its own political autonomy to stay rural and resist these data centers and northerners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I've been away for many years and just flew into Dulles on a business trip back to DC for the first time in nearly a decade. I saw the new construction for the Metro station, but was utterly shocked to see the location.

Why the heck is it so far from the terminal? That's an absolutely ridiculous hike with luggage. I'm shocked it's not on top of the hourly parking or even directly linked into the terminal. Was there any controversy when they build this?

Just makes no sense.

Transit advocates lobbied hard for it be in the airport but WMATA said it was too expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I've been away for many years and just flew into Dulles on a business trip back to DC for the first time in nearly a decade. I saw the new construction for the Metro station, but was utterly shocked to see the location.

Why the heck is it so far from the terminal? That's an absolutely ridiculous hike with luggage. I'm shocked it's not on top of the hourly parking or even directly linked into the terminal. Was there any controversy when they build this?

Just makes no sense.

Transit advocates lobbied hard for it be in the airport but WMATA said it was too expensive.

WMATA doesn’t care about the cost. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is paying for the Silver Line expansion and they decided it was too expensive to spend $100 million to move the station 500 ft. And they’re right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I've been away for many years and just flew into Dulles on a business trip back to DC for the first time in nearly a decade. I saw the new construction for the Metro station, but was utterly shocked to see the location.

Why the heck is it so far from the terminal? That's an absolutely ridiculous hike with luggage. I'm shocked it's not on top of the hourly parking or even directly linked into the terminal. Was there any controversy when they build this?

Just makes no sense.

Transit advocates lobbied hard for it be in the airport but WMATA said it was too expensive.

WMATA doesn’t care about the cost. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is paying for the Silver Line expansion and they decided it was too expensive to spend $100 million to move the station 500 ft. And they’re right.

I believe the cost was $300 million and where they ended up putting it was a good idea. It's a 5 minute walk.