metro is losing $400,000 /day because of the shutdown

[Anonymous]

So, expect service to become even more rotten this year as Metro struggles to keep up with such a huge shortfall in its revenues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/01/18/metro-is-losing-day-during-shutdown-agency-says/?utm_term=.e9f5fa6f5c9f

[Anonymous]

You mean because it’s finally not an over-crowded cess pit of humanity during rush hour?

[Anonymous]

Maybe if it didn't tolerate all the fare-jumpers (especially the ones on the buses) and enforced their own rules, there wouldn't be such a shortfall.

[Anonymous]

Ridership was down even before the furlough started.

[Anonymous]

They need to LOWER their prices so more people will ride. They are pricing people out of the system. Might as well drive when it's so expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You mean because it’s finally not an over-crowded cess pit of humanity during rush hour?

All public transit gets crowded during rush hour. But I ride metro every day and never thought it was a cess pit of humanity. I'm just glad I don't have to sit in traffic for 40 minutes each way. And yes, now metro is pretty empty. Which is sad. The shutdown is affecting everything in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

So the government is saving $400k/day because it's the one who is paying for the feds' metro fares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the government is saving $400k/day because it's the one who is paying for the feds' metro fares.

That’s a pretty basic elementary school level conclusion. Try again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the government is saving $400k/day because it's the one who is paying for the feds' metro fares.

That’s a pretty basic elementary school level conclusion. Try again.

PP is right. Fed transit subsidies I assume aren’t being paid to those affected - interesting question for those experiencing this - is this true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You mean because it’s finally not an over-crowded cess pit of humanity during rush hour?

All public transit gets crowded during rush hour. But I ride metro every day and never thought it was a cess pit of humanity. I'm just glad I don't have to sit in traffic for 40 minutes each way. And yes, now metro is pretty empty. Which is sad. The shutdown is affecting everything in the DC area.

So you’re saying all public transits are overcrowded hell holes during rush hour during normal operations. Look on the bright side - it’s flu season, and less crowding means everyone is less lightly to get sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You mean because it’s finally not an over-crowded cess pit of humanity during rush hour?

All public transit gets crowded during rush hour. But I ride metro every day and never thought it was a cess pit of humanity. I'm just glad I don't have to sit in traffic for 40 minutes each way. And yes, now metro is pretty empty. Which is sad. The shutdown is affecting everything in the DC area.

So you’re saying all public transits are overcrowded hell holes during rush hour during normal operations. Look on the bright side - it’s flu season, and less crowding means everyone is less lightly to get sick.

No, I'm saying that I'm not a sensitive snowflake, and that staying on a crowded train doesn't bother me. But I understand that other people find it difficult, and those are the kind of people who prefer driving commutes (I hate to drive in traffic.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You mean because it’s finally not an over-crowded cess pit of humanity during rush hour?

All public transit gets crowded during rush hour. But I ride metro every day and never thought it was a cess pit of humanity. I'm just glad I don't have to sit in traffic for 40 minutes each way. And yes, now metro is pretty empty. Which is sad. The shutdown is affecting everything in the DC area.

So you’re saying all public transits are overcrowded hell holes during rush hour during normal operations. Look on the bright side - it’s flu season, and less crowding means everyone is less lightly to get sick.

No, I'm saying that I'm not a sensitive snowflake, and that staying on a crowded train doesn't bother me. But I understand that other people find it difficult, and those are the kind of people who prefer driving commutes (I hate to drive in traffic.)

+1 I enjoy my metro time. I have a kindle and read, which I don't get a chance to do normally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if it didn't tolerate all the fare-jumpers (especially the ones on the buses) and enforced their own rules, there wouldn't be such a shortfall.

Sure, it would be $399,950/day. Plus $10k in costs to catch, detain and prosecute all the jumpers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the government is saving $400k/day because it's the one who is paying for the feds' metro fares.

we shouldn't have put all our dumbest people in one party

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if it didn't tolerate all the fare-jumpers (especially the ones on the buses) and enforced their own rules, there wouldn't be such a shortfall.

Sure, it would be $399,950/day. Plus $10k in costs to catch, detain and prosecute all the jumpers.

All it takes a few hard convictions to set an example and precedence.

Just like arresting the teenager who ate french fries on metro years ago. It's worth the investment and if it was followed through and the zero-tolerance stance was in place metro wouldn't have ended up as the gross, dirty, wrappers everywhere, smelly transit system it has become.