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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we should do the opposite. Discourage car use. I am serious. [/quote]

100% agree 
-- bike commuter[/quote]

+1 also agree. Commuter tax to fund and improve Metro![/quote]
To be quite serious for a moment, how much money does Metro need? Now that they have the dedicated funding from local tax revenue the outcome is that they DGAF. However, it was sworn up and down that with dedicated funding it would be the exact opposite. We were told that they lack of dedicated funding was the constraint on good performance. What we have learned instead is that the only way that Metro was incentivized to perform well was because they had to make a case to local governments for funding to bridge budget gaps. So we got the long list of funny strategies with funnier names, the last being “Back to Good” . But now they don’t even pretend to care. When the stimulus fund run out, there is a fiscal cliff coming for WMATA and it’s not going to be good. The biggest problem though is that there is no longer an option to privatize the system because they have now issued all of these bonds. Anyone that actually cares about transit in DC should never have the knee jerk reaction of just throwing more money at WMATA. It’s a bottomless pit and an unlimited supply of money will never fix it. [/quote]

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