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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Metro considers ending weekend rail service, closing 19 stations and reducing the number of trains to cut operating costs...

Is this just during covid or post covid as well?[/quote]

I think it's their proposal to balance next year's budget.  They took a major hit because of the pandemic, and Congress isn't passing the necessary relief.  Their ridership is down well over 50 percent.  I think the cuts are awful, but if they don't have the money, they don't have the money.  [/quote]

It's not about the pandemic. WMATA has been mismanaged for decades. Not worth bailing them out time and time again.[/quote]

It's totally about the pandemic.  Ridership plummeted, and hasn't really recovered.  Overall, it's at something like a tenth of pre-COVID levels.  It's easy to say it's not worth bailing them out, but a lot of people ride Metro.  What happens when all of those people are forced onto the road because Metro isn't available anymore?  Are you ready for that congestion?  Lack of parking?  Public transportation is a public good.  Metro's management structure is crap, in large part because it's a hybrid of three jurisdictions that won't commit to funding, making long-term planning hard.  But we need public transportation for the local economy to work, and we'd better find a way to make it work.  We subsidize driving in many ways, it's not asking too much to ask that leadership figures out a way to keep Metro afloat.  [/quote]

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