Breakfast links: Dulles action

Loudoun United soccer?

Governor McAuliffe wants DC United’s new stadium in Loudoun County and the team is actually showing interest. Some DC leaders think it’s just a ploy to get more favorable terms on a DC deal. Many fans are not pleased. (Post)

Needed: New Dulles airline?

There’s great opportunity for a domestic-based start-up airline to come to Dulles. Such an airline could take advantage of extra space, like JetBlue did at JFK, and time its opening with the Silver Line. (The Street)

Mall Circulator coming, sometime

Training starts this week for the long-awaited DC Circulator route that will connect Union Station to the National Mall. But there’s still no opening date for the line. (District Source)

Hurry up, WMATA

VDOT secretary Layne is losing patience with WMATA’s slow search for a new general manager. Everyone agrees that WMATA needs a transformative leader, but the board still can’t reach consensus on the job description. (Post)

Maryland Avenue moves

DDOT is moving forward with plans to make a dangerous stretch of Maryland Avenue, NE safer. The plans, slated for construction in 2017, include fewer travel lanes, new bike lanes, and pedestrian islands. (TheWashCycle)

Don’t demolish homes

Virginia homeowners voiced their concerns about plans to widen I-66, worried that residential and school property could be taken to make way for more lanes. VDOT is developing plans to reduce property impacts. (WAMU)

No more moratorium

The Rockville City Council upped the threshhold for stopping new development in areas with over-capacity schools to match the Montgomery County 120% over-capacity rule and to keep development plans moving. (Bethesda Beat)

Frack no

A Maryland bill temporarily banning fracking is now the law after Governor Hogan decided not to veto it. The law places a 2.5 year moratorium on fracking and requires the state to craft environmental standards in the meantime. (TheHill)