Papers are signed for funding of the Dulles Metro silver line. Shaking hands after the signing are, left to right, H. R. Crawford, chair of the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. In the immediate back row are former Va. Sen. John Warner, Sen. Mark Warner, Gov. Tim Kaine and U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf.

Photo: Gerald Martineau, Washington Post

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John Larson checks in with the trolley as it makes a stop.

Photo: Dayna Smith, Washington Post

Tagged: energy, environment, Leesburg, transportation

A bottle of the cleaned oil that the Leesburg Town Trolley now runs on. Resident John Larson procures waste vegetable oil from local restaurants to provide the trolley with fuel to run.

Photo: Dayna Smith, Washington Post

Tagged: energy, environment, Leesburg, transportation

John Larson, who provides the Leesburg Town Trolley with waste vegetable oil to run on, checks in with the trolley as it makes a stop. Larson collects the oil from local restaurants.

Photo: Dayna Smith, Washington Post

Tagged: energy, environment, Leesburg, transportation

The Leesburg Town Trolley has gone green by running on vegetable oil, thanks to John Larson, who sells waste vegetable oil he collects from local restaurants.

Photo: Courtesy of Kathleen R. Leidich, Assistant to the Town Manager

Tagged: energy, environment, Leesburg, transportation

The Leesburg Town Trolley has begun running on vegetable oil thanks to John Larson, who sells waste vegetable oil he collects from local restaurants. Larson picks up used oil at the China King restaurant in downtown Leesburg.

Photo: Dayna Smith, Washington Post

Tagged: energy, environment, Leesburg, transportation

The Leesburg Town Trolley has begun running on vegetable oil thanks to John Larson, who sells waste vegetable oil he collects from local restaurants. Larson picks up used oil at the China King restaurant in downtown Leesburg.

Photo: Dayna Smith, Washington Post

Tagged: energy, environment, Leesburg, transportation

Metrorail stations were packed with riders in the early morning.

Photo: Ron Evans

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Loudoun County residents at 4:15 a.m. boarding the Loudoun Transit buses for the West Falls Church Metro Station.

Photo: Ron Evans

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The Wrong Way Home: It was already called Crooked Bridge, but it was much straighter — and safer — than this before flooding in May left the structure badly damaged, cutting off the only road to a pocket of houses south of Oatlands. Residents with four-wheel-drive vehicles were able to use a path through a cornfield, but many cars had to traverse the shaky bridge one last time and park along Lime Kiln Road. The bridge is privately owned, and county officials worked to give residents an alternative route. The Greenlea homeowners association is looking for contractors to work on the bridge, which it hopes to have refurbished by spring.

Photo: Susan Biddle, Washington Post

Tagged: Crooked Bridge, flood, flooding, transportation, weather

After the opening of Washington Dulles International Airports 4th Runway, 1L-9R there was a cake cutting with Robert Sturgell, acting FAA administrator, Gov. Kaine and U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

Tagged: Dulles, Dulles Airport, Gov. Tim Kaine, transportation

The fourth runway, 1L-19R, opens at Washington Dulles International Airport. This is the first plane to use the runway, American Flight #419 to Los Angeles, Calif.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters declares Runway 1L-19R -- the fourth runway -- open, at Washington Dulles International Airport. With her is Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and Robert Sturgell, acting FAA administrator.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

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VDOT crews make repairs to paved areas of Mt. Gilead Road in Leesburg.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

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VDOT crews make repairs along paved areas of Mt. Gilead Road in Leesburg. The yellow-and-black signs show where gravel road surface ends and paved begins.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

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VDOT crews make repairs to paved areas of Mt. Gilead Road in Leesburg.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

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Gov. Tim Kaine speaks to the media during a news conference in the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond on Thursday. Kaine's transportation bill was killed by the House Rules Committee earlier in the day.

Photo: AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Eva Russo

Tagged: transportation

Gov. Tim Kaine speaks to the media during a news conference in the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond on Thursday. Kaine's transportation bill was killed by the House Rules Committee earlier in the day.

Photo: AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Eva Russo

Tagged: transportation

Gov. Tim Kaine speaks to the media during a news conference in the Patrick Henry Building, in Richmond on Thursday. Kaine's transportation bill was killed by the House Rules Committee, after being approved by the Senate, earlier in the day.

Photo: AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Eva Russo

Tagged: transportation

House speaker William Howell (R-Stafford), center, along with Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, left, and State Sen. Charles Colgan (D-Manassas), right, listen to Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine during a speech before a joint session of the Virginia General Assembly on Monday, June 23.

Photo: AP/Steve Hebler

Tagged: transportation

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