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By MARY K. BLEW ITT Arundel New spapers Slate \\ riter Transportation should proceed 'development. This is a philosophy shared by two unlikely comrades in' -volved in mass transportation projects. Najeeh Halahv of DART Rail ■ and Ralph Stanley of the Toll Road - 'Corporat ion of Virginia. I he two also support the concept 1 of public-private transportation projects — a practice they have made ' into a business. • ' Mr. Halaby chairman of the ' board of the 1 tulles Access Rapid Transit Corp , is seeking to build a light rail system from west of Washington. D.C., along 1-fib to Dulles ' -a'nd eventually farther west. Mr. ' -Stanley is head of the company that plans to extend the existing Dulles Toll Road, which now run.-' from the • Washington Beltway west to the air port, west from the airport to Leesburg.
Conceivably, the two are com’ -jletitors, since travelers have to 1 choose between road and rail. Rut. Mr Stanley said, that probably ■ 'won't be the case, since better trails poration means people make more trips. Mobility means more rtmvement.
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