and it will reduce air safety in the capital of the united states, at reagan national airport, otherwise known as dca. i'm going to summarize quickly the arguments i made the last couple weeks, but then i want to respond to at least three questions that folks who make a position opposite to me have raised and use some data to demonstrate that those questions, though honestly raised, have answers, and the by order of comparison, dulles airport is about 12,000 acres, dallas-fort worth about 19,000 acres, denver 32,000 acres. when reagan national was built, it was a little bit the trend to build smaller airports near downtowns because the airplanes were smaller. they were props, with fewer passengers, and lighter and didn't need as much landing runway space to take off or land.maryland. when reagan national was built, and if you've bb there -- bb there, you -- been there, you know it can't be expanded. it was built with three runways, a primary runway and two commuter runways, and the estimate was in the 1960's, that reagan national with three runways could accommodate 15 million passengers