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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so troubling. I am D-O-N-E with Metro. Absolutely done. Used to be a daily rider. I haven’t taken it since COVID and will never take it again if I can help it.

They need to disband WMATA and sell it all off to a private company to operate. [/quote]

Dramatic, much? This accident was patron error, and had nothing to do with Metro. You expect a train operator to see a thin dog leash from hundreds of feet away? The owner was negligent, and his accidental negligence resulted in his death. 
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The rubric currently seems to be that someone does something dumb on a bicycle and dies and it is a horrible tragedy and we as a society need to derisk every potential situation so that people don’t do dumb things on bicycles and get themselves killed because “doing dumb things on a bike should not be a death sentence”.

However, if someone does something dumb and gets themselves killed on Metro, we should just shrug it off as “patron error”.

I don’t care to debate this, just noting the difference.[/quote]

One can simultaneously believe that "doing dumb things should not be a death sentence, but you also cannot idiot proof the world."

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Sure. Go tell the bicycle people that.[/quote]

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