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Business Community Gets Onboard to Revive Dulles Rail Plan
Officials last week told Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine that the Dulles rail project was ineligible for $900 million in federal money.
(By Jacquelyn Martin -- Associated Press)
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Drivers for Element H2O spend hours on the road each morning to make deliveries in the District.
"It is crippling my company's bottom line," said Kirk Forman, vice president of business development. "I'm spending so much in excess fuel costs and overtime for the drivers who can't move on highways to make deliveries."
Reston Hospital Center has found that transferring patients by ambulance is not an option at rush hour. It has increasingly been shuttling patients by helicopter, a safer and faster, yet more expensive, alternative.
Northrop Grumman opened a headquarters in Reston 10 years ago with the expectation that employees would be able to ride Metrorail to work by now, said Bob Waters, vice president of human resources and administration. If employees are no longer willing to make the difficult commute, the company won't be able to expand here, he said.
"If we can't staff big projects locally, we may decide to go to West Virginia," he said. "We do have to look at alternatives."
About one-third of employees that have left Telos, a network security firm based in Ashburn, cite the lengthy commute as their reason, chief executive John Wood said.
It is especially difficult to recruit young, fresh talent without a mass transportation link to the District, Wood said.
"Being a family-friendly area is great," he said, "but if you're a young single professional, you want a nightlife."
