WAMTA Requesting Another Billion of Taxpayer Money

[Anonymous]

The current budget for WAMTA is $5 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2025. WAMTA is now requesting additional taxpayer funding under a Proposal called DMVMOVES with four proposed spending levels. Option 1 requires an average of an additional $608 million per year (for FY26-FY35) just to complete the bare minimum level of maintenance. Option 2 is requesting an additional $719 million per year for slightly improved service. However, option 3 and 4 are still TBD and will require additional billions each year for expanded service. Does it even make sense to increase metro funding at this point due to the rising prevalence of remote work and considering the failure of the silver line? I’m concerned that at this proposals to increase the number of metro stations will result in a significant burden on taxpayers and have minimal impact on overall ridership levels.

https://dmvmoves.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DMVMoves-Task-Force-Meeting-2_Presentation.pdf

https://images.app.goo.gl/UGdZ6W2PwtemJUxr6

[Anonymous]

We don’t need public transportation. Just build another highway lane. That will fix everything.

[Anonymous]

On the one hand I am a big supporter of public transport and wish the US had much more.

On the other hand metro has been a mismanaged dumpster fire for decades and can’t even bother to collect fares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the one hand I am a big supporter of public transport and wish the US had much more.

On the other hand metro has been a mismanaged dumpster fire for decades and can’t even bother to collect fares.

One way to save it would be to concentrate almost all density around metro stops, but nooooo, let’s upzone everything, spread the density around, and the people that already don’t take metro will start taking the new longbus, instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the one hand I am a big supporter of public transport and wish the US had much more.

On the other hand metro has been a mismanaged dumpster fire for decades and can’t even bother to collect fares.

Why did you vote in a DC city council who “decriminalized” fare-evasion and turnstyle jumping on Metro?

[Anonymous]

It is not the republicans who keep voting to decriminalize crime.

[Anonymous]

Fare evasion is a tiny part of WMATAs budget issues and they’ve gone ahead and installed new fare gates everywhere if that’s your issue

[Anonymous]

You gotta chuckle at "slightly improved service"

Systems as big as DC's take time (decades) to bloom.

It's all a slow walk to complete free system. Localities playing tight to the chest what they 'could' contribute. Honestly I thought we'd be further along by now.

All the global-city systems have their problems.

[Anonymous]

Bike lanes are killing transit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are killing transit.

No they're not. But high prices and limited service schedules are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fare evasion is a tiny part of WMATAs budget issues and they’ve gone ahead and installed new fare gates everywhere if that’s your issue

It is the principle. They shouldn’t be asking for more money if they can’t be bothered to collect fares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The current budget for WAMTA is $5 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2025. WAMTA is now requesting additional taxpayer funding under a Proposal called DMVMOVES with four proposed spending levels. Option 1 requires an average of an additional $608 million per year (for FY26-FY35) just to complete the bare minimum level of maintenance. Option 2 is requesting an additional $719 million per year for slightly improved service. However, option 3 and 4 are still TBD and will require additional billions each year for expanded service. Does it even make sense to increase metro funding at this point due to the rising prevalence of remote work and considering the failure of the silver line? I’m concerned that at this proposals to increase the number of metro stations will result in a significant burden on taxpayers and have minimal impact on overall ridership levels.

https://dmvmoves.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DMVMoves-Task-Force-Meeting-2_Presentation.pdf

https://images.app.goo.gl/UGdZ6W2PwtemJUxr6

Pretty hard to take you seriously when you are too dumb to get the acronym correctly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current budget for WAMTA is $5 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2025. WAMTA is now requesting additional taxpayer funding under a Proposal called DMVMOVES with four proposed spending levels. Option 1 requires an average of an additional $608 million per year (for FY26-FY35) just to complete the bare minimum level of maintenance. Option 2 is requesting an additional $719 million per year for slightly improved service. However, option 3 and 4 are still TBD and will require additional billions each year for expanded service. Does it even make sense to increase metro funding at this point due to the rising prevalence of remote work and considering the failure of the silver line? I’m concerned that at this proposals to increase the number of metro stations will result in a significant burden on taxpayers and have minimal impact on overall ridership levels.

https://dmvmoves.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DMVMoves-Task-Force-Meeting-2_Presentation.pdf

https://images.app.goo.gl/UGdZ6W2PwtemJUxr6

Pretty hard to take you seriously when you are too dumb to get the acronym correctly.

I have dyslexia. Thanks for being a jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The current budget for WAMTA is $5 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2025. WAMTA is now requesting additional taxpayer funding under a Proposal called DMVMOVES with four proposed spending levels. Option 1 requires an average of an additional $608 million per year (for FY26-FY35) just to complete the bare minimum level of maintenance. Option 2 is requesting an additional $719 million per year for slightly improved service. However, option 3 and 4 are still TBD and will require additional billions each year for expanded service. Does it even make sense to increase metro funding at this point due to the rising prevalence of remote work and considering the failure of the silver line? I’m concerned that at this proposals to increase the number of metro stations will result in a significant burden on taxpayers and have minimal impact on overall ridership levels.

https://dmvmoves.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DMVMoves-Task-Force-Meeting-2_Presentation.pdf

https://images.app.goo.gl/UGdZ6W2PwtemJUxr6

Pretty hard to take you seriously when you are too dumb to get the acronym correctly.

I have dyslexia. Thanks for being a jerk.

Sure you do.

Signed, mom of a kid with dyslexia who knows much more about it than you do

[Anonymous]

WMATA needs to look at those ways their employees were making money off of their fleet, but couldn’t be bothered with doing it themselves.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/wmata-employee-charged-extortion-and-bribery-connected-surplus-property-sales