Wiedefeld was a plague on Metro

[Anonymous]

Will folk finally admit it?
This failed training issue was totally his own making or failure to fix
Drivers were still working during the pandemic, so that's no excuse to skip safety training

[Anonymous]

WMATA is a cesspool. Always has been always will be.

[Anonymous]

I’m sad about the metro. When I first moved here in the 90s, I was so happy about it I would invite my friends from other cities to show them the trains and ride around town. Now it’s barely usable because there are always 30 min delays and single tracking.

[Anonymous]

WMATA has been broken for decades. It was just easier to mask the dysfunction for the first 25-30 years because maintenance could be deferred on infrastructure that was still relatively new.

Those days are gone. And to make matters worse, the foundational purpose for which the entire Metro system was built to satisfy (ferrying MC and UMC commuters from the suburbs and suburban neighborhoods to the DC CBD and back) has changed. We now have a crumbling and obsolete fixed system of trains and tracks that is out of alignment with the present and future transit needs of the region.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will folk finally admit it?
This failed training issue was totally his own making or failure to fix
Drivers were still working during the pandemic, so that's no excuse to skip safety training

How long have you been in the area? Did you know the state metro was in before Wiedefeld?

[Anonymous]

Blaming Wiedelfeld for the fact that revealed preferences confirm that people really hate taking public transit?

Air Travel = 100% pre-COVID
Car Traffic = 100% pre-COVID
Rail Ridership = 35% pre-COVID

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blaming Wiedelfeld for the fact that revealed preferences confirm that people really hate taking public transit?

Air Travel = 100% pre-COVID
Car Traffic = 100% pre-COVID
Rail Ridership = 35% pre-COVID

Well YAY since we're about to build more of it called the Purple Line.

[Anonymous]

Alexandria Checking In:

For as much as Wilson huffs and puffs about almost year long shutdowns here, he is cut from the same cloth, and believes failure is standard and a fact of life.

All cities should withhold funding until service, that activists claim is necessary, is restored. Do your job or GTFO.

Employee parking should also be prohibited around the WMATA headquarters in Alexandria off the Yellow Line, Eisenhower Metro.

Think shutting down for six months is acceptable? Have fun walking to work, because you're definitely not driving.

[Anonymous]

Metro is a plague on metro.

[Anonymous]

Metro is so broken, it’s business model, it’s culture, it’s leadership etc. People are quick to blame its funding model but I am not sure changing the funding just doesn’t continue the disfunction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Metro is so broken, it’s business model, it’s culture, it’s leadership etc. People are quick to blame its funding model but I am not sure changing the funding just doesn’t continue the disfunction.

Exactly. Funding isn’t the issue. To fix Metro would require firing every last employee in the organization. Their problems are systemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Metro is so broken, it’s business model, it’s culture, it’s leadership etc. People are quick to blame its funding model but I am not sure changing the funding just doesn’t continue the disfunction.

Exactly. Funding isn’t the issue. To fix Metro would require firing every last employee in the organization. Their problems are systemic.

Interesting that no one ever blames the Board for a failure of oversight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Metro is so broken, it’s business model, it’s culture, it’s leadership etc. People are quick to blame its funding model but I am not sure changing the funding just doesn’t continue the disfunction.

Exactly. Funding isn’t the issue. To fix Metro would require firing every last employee in the organization. Their problems are systemic.

Interesting that no one ever blames the Board for a failure of oversight.

Throw them out too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will folk finally admit it?
This failed training issue was totally his own making or failure to fix
Drivers were still working during the pandemic, so that's no excuse to skip safety training

How long have you been in the area? Did you know the state metro was in before Wiedefeld?

I have been here since the 80s
I.fondly remember reliably taking metro home at 1am after hanging. out downtown, and hopping out to national airport for flights
I even would take guests down to Smithsonian on those trains
I miss all thats 😪

[Anonymous]

Ugh, typos on a small screen, sorry