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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the reality of public transit:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/traffic/mission-metro/metro-warns-massive-service-cuts-death-spiral-transit-750-million-shortfall/65-9c0dc54f-8f65-46c4-8390-51e8108ac1a5

Where are the anti-car fascists now?  Have fun going to work or doing things on the weekend.  The anti-car crowd loves to give pie in the sky calculations that never account for human factors like crime, overrun costs, inefficiencies, and huge bloated salaries and benefits for the unionized workers bankrupting the system.  So glad we are spending billions more on this black hole with the purple line.  Watch, the only solution they’ll come up with is to increase taxes and to increase fares to outrageous prices.  It has never dawned on them to start with common sense ideas like increasing safety and severely punishing fare evaders. Why should anyone pay of a huge portion of people ride for free already? [/quote]

You make a good point.  Perhaps public transportation should receive equal amounts of public subsidy as the road network does for personal car users.  Only 33% about of road spending in tmDC is paid for by usage fees/taxes on gas, tags, etc.  So whatever metro is making in user fees, we can multiply that by three and then DC, VA, and MD can kick in 2/3rd of that out of general fund.[/quote]

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