Severe Metro budget cuts
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Anonymous
Peak-hour commuting Metrorail ridership is down, unsurprisingly, given work from home. So now we don't need Metro trains or buses anymore? Is that what you're saying? |
Anonymous
MD and VA fund metro as commuter rail. If it’s not used by commuters, then there is no reason for MD and VA to fund it at the same levels |
Anonymous
That's silly. MD and VA fund Metro as regional transportation, which it is. |
Anonymous
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Metro crying wolf about funding?
Poetic that it’s so close to Groundhog Day. |
Anonymous
| MD and VA contribute additional funds only once DC criminalizes fare evasion and starts enforcing it. |
Anonymous
Yes, federal employees return to work at least 3 days per week and criminalize fare jumping. |
Anonymous
| Public transportation is the crime railway Express to the suburbs |
Anonymous
Or you can just layoff all of the WMATA deadbeats and automate 80% of the jobs. Agree on criminalization of fare evasion. It shouldn’t be up to working class people to make sure CRE and WMATA survive. |
Anonymous
It already is funded every year by taxpayers... heavily subsidized. And what do you think the gas tax is used for? |
Anonymous
Yes, I too can opine anonymously on the internet about things I don't know anything about. |
Anonymous
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I see it as the result of chronic mismanagement and corruption within the system. I have known individuals who worked for WMATA who boasted about how little work they had to do. As long as you knew the right people to get hired, you were golden.
If federal money is going to go into funding it, it needs to be federally run with oversight and proper checks and balances. Otherwise, keep the tax dollars away from it. |
Anonymous
I am glad that at least by omission you agree that spending hundreds of millions of dollars on 3 new - and totally unnecessary - office buildings is a contributing factor. But lets me real here, anyone that has actually worked for an organization that has engaged in serious cost cutting knows that no extraneous costs are spared, big or small. Because at some point, there ceases to be easy low hanging fruit and the efficiency gains are all about the margins. It is hard to take WMATA’s budget issues seriously when there is zero evidence that WMATA is taking the budget issue seriously. Their first job should be to cut admin spending to the bare essentials and then make their request to the states. Even if it only saves a little bit of money, it doesn’t matter. What is does show is a level of seriousness about cost controls that gives everyone confidence that they have moved past the days of corruption and incompetence. |
Anonymous
It was actually the SJWs on the DC Council who pushed to decriminalize fare theft. Treated as a civil offense, police within DC limits can't even demand identification from fare thieves if the thieves refuse to provide it. The DC Council needs to reinstate arrests and criminal sanctions for fare theft. Having a few "evaders" sitting with plastic cuff restraints by the fare gates while waiting to be processed would go a long way to deter others. |
Anonymous
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Don’t you just love it when progressives state we need to dump unlimited amounts of money into WMATA, even though you might not use it, because, “We live in a society!”. Yet on the other hand they completely decriminalize fare theft. Gee, if we live in a so called society with laws, civility, and order, then why isn’t theft a problem for progressives then? You can’t have it both ways. If we live in a society that requires funding of public transport, then we also live n a society that should require basic standards for law and order and punishment for breaking basic social contracts we should have for citizens of this so called society.
It’s total hypocrisy trying to appeal to “society”. |
Anonymous
Young "progressive" SJWs say "society" (meaning you) should pay while they "slay." |