DC Metro trains operated by exhausted and DRUNK drivers

[Anonymous]

This is horrifying

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2024/08/07/metro-trains-exhausted-drivers-near-collisions/

Frequent close calls, running red lights, poor shift management, and train operators failing sobriety tests.

[Anonymous]

It's definitely not how things should be. But Metro is still much safer than driving.

[Anonymous]

This is very bad, and they need to fix it.

(Won't make me change the way I get to work, though, I agree with the PP.)

[Anonymous]

Drunk Metro drivers (train or bus) should be in jail.

[Anonymous]

Drunk my ass. They know they're prob high on weed, but just want to blame booze because the real truth about causing accidents while high on weed doesn't fit the left narrative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drunk my ass. They know they're prob high on weed, but just want to blame booze because the real truth about causing accidents while high on weed doesn't fit the left narrative.

Drunk or high, fire them nigh!

[Anonymous]

Anyone who has encountered WMATA employees shouldn't be surprised at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drunk my ass. They know they're prob high on weed, but just want to blame booze because the real truth about causing accidents while high on weed doesn't fit the left narrative.

This seems like a stretch — drunk Metro drivers sounds, if anything, worse than stoned ones, at least to me, and why would Metro want to take sides in that kind of fight?

[Anonymous]

love that the union says safety is “among” it’s highest priorities. come on guys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:love that the union says safety is “among” it’s highest priorities. come on guys.

It's their own workers' safety on the line. I believe it. I don't know why you wouldn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has encountered WMATA employees shouldn't be surprised at all.

I generally assume every Metro employee I encounter is either high or drunk until proven otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has encountered WMATA employees shouldn't be surprised at all.

This.

Metro train operators get paid roughly the same as what the Fed pays doctors, when you include their overtime (skinny: guaranteed, whether they work it or not) and allowances and retirement supplements (skinny: they get better retirement packages than what a new Fed would get), and they truly can't be fired, nearly ever. It's truly Boston civil service there. The "solution" to every WMATA crisis is, add people and reorg the idiots in the cheap suits. It never works. WMATA is a completely lost cause and there's no reason not to simply admit the truth and close the agency. Lay off every single one of them.