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[quote=Anonymous]The purple line: the line no one ever wanted, the line that has been delayed by years with multiple billions in cost overruns.

Read this article and tell me it makes sense to complete the project:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/08/09/metro-financial-crisis/

A few excerpts for those outside the paywall:

"The Washington area’s Metro transit system is inching toward financial catastrophe, threatening the region’s quality of life and its efforts to lift up the poor, address climate change and spur a post-covid economic revival.

Billions of federal pandemic-relief dollars are now nearly gone, and the “nation’s subway,” as some boosters call it, is facing massive deficits far into the future."

"Fares would need to jump more than 500 percent to address the kind of deficits the agency has faced, according to a Metro presentation last year, which contemplated a $19.35 one-way fare to Metro Center from Bethesda — or $32.70 from Ashburn.

Metro would never hike fares that high because they would instantly decimate ridership, so slashing service would be more realistic. But that, too, would lead to a downward spiral, Metro officials said."

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