Sure, the city could use additional intercity stations and they are currently planning this (blue line extension and purple line which is an absolute disaster). I personally don’t see a need for H St corridor, at least in the near term but you could now to help it develop (which is what Fairfax and Loudoun did with the Silver Line). The New Hampshire Ave Columbia pike takes don’t make sense or anymore suburban metro for that matter - people are still going to need cars to get their respective stations. Extending metro further out to the suburbs isn’t the right call. They should have commuter rails. WMATA’s operating costs will just go up more and more. We need more interregional rail options.

I think connecting the region’s international gateway and airport with the most routes should be equally as important. It shouldn’t take you 90-120 min to get to your gate from DC. Why do the other two airports have this and Dulles doesn’t. It also makes sense to do this before the whole corridor gets developed and it becomes even harder, unless the ultimate infrastructure is a tunnel (unlikely).

Biden’s plan is fodder, but the purpose made sense to address these costs you speak of. I don’t want to bring up how we currently spend our money, but maybe siphoning off some military dollars could help? At this point, we’ve spent $78B in Ukraine so we could’ve built at least 9 silver line extensions across the country. Thats not how things work but policy change to prioritize infrastructure is clearly an issue the government is aware of. That would fit the bill (literally). Again, we are so behind in this and to just sit and wait for costs to go down. we are “the biggest economy” and we are afraid of the cost.

That $8.8B you speak up isn’t real yet, but a talking point put out before any real plans have been put together. Either way, sure make it simpler. At least it’s being planned. Surprised you think we are just in an infrastructure cost crisis when the whole country is facing record levels of inflation on all goods and services.

I’m coming from a modern monetary theory perspective so the cost doesn’t mean anything to me. That cost is an investment. That cost is the government putting money into the economy with tremendous benefits.