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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes to the 8 car train! How are they paying for this? I understand that was always the problem.

This is a great direction, but I confess I was hoping the policy change was about booting the lazy workers![/quote]

+1.  WMATA doesn’t have an infrastructure problem.  It doesn’t have a maintenance problem.  It doesn’t have a financial problem.  It has a severe personnel problem.

Breach the union contracts.  Let them strike.  They don’t do anything anyway.  [/quote]

I think the current changes are a good start, but I agree that a major problem is paid compensation.  WMATA employees who have been working 20+ years make an unreasonable salary. [b] It is unsustainable for a public transit system to be paying train operators more than many professional white-collar workers.  
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I agree that WMATA needs to breach the union contracts and force some sort of cap on salaries.  The salaries are preventing WMATA from adequately funding necessary maintenance and updates to the system.[/quote]

Really? Why?  The train operators are literally 100x more important than a random lawyer or GS-14.  They deserve good, middle-class salaries! [/quote]

This is a silly reply - salaries are dependent on what the market will bear, or at least they should be.  The qualifications to drive a bus are pretty basic while those required to be a lawyer are much higher.  And I'm no fan of lawyers personally but what they do is pretty important and you need to be a lot smarter to be a lawyer than to drive a bus.[/quote]

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