Today U.S. PIRG staff attorney John Krieger and Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty released our new report A Better Way To Go. That's Mayor Fenty speaking, in hat, with John to his immediate picture left, along with other transit and public officials. They're standing in front of the Eastern Market Metro Orange/Blue Line stop a few blocks from our Capitol Hill offices. The chart far camera right describes a possible extension/branch of the Metro Orange Line to Dulles Airport through the traffic quagmire known as Tysons Corner. Here is the news release. The national report uses the Dulles example and those of a variety of other local projects around the country to demonstrate the benefits of reinvesting in public transit to save oil and provide other benefits to the ecoonomy.

"Americans are spending more money at the pumps, more time stuck in traffic, and more resources looking for solutions to our addiction to oil," said US PIRG staff attorney John Krieger. "This report data shows that our country needs federal investment in popular projects like the Dulles Extension in order to meet our country’s long-term transportation needs."