Can Dulles Airport Get More Inconvenient? Yes.

Really, I dont understand this: having agreed to spend $8 billion to dig a subway all the way out to Dulles Airport, Virginia authorities won't spend the final $300 million necessary to make the subway usable.

Instead of emerging inside the airport, the Dulles subway will emerge outside - exposed to the elements and requiring a further walk to the terminal.

Given Dulles' already uniquely inconvenient design, this further obstacle means that the trip from central Washington to the airport curb, then from the airport curb to a seat on the plane, will take very nearly as long as a flight halfway across the continent.

Question: how much will it cost to build the extra parking lots made necessary by the decision to go cheap on the subway terminal? But here's my own positive suggestion: when building something as awful as Dulles, we should at least afix the names of the people responsible. Why should the ghost of John Foster Dulles have to endure a half-century of curses for bad design decisions not remotely his fault?