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[quote=Anonymous]Not here to defend Wiedefeld because Hogan fired him for being an incompetent manager at BWI so the area Democrats thought they would stick it to Hogan by putting him in charge of WMATA.

However it’s also important to remember that when he took over WMATA, track fires were a daily occurrence and when it was hot trains could not operate due to track warping because there was criminal fraud in the track inspection unit where they were falsifying records.

The truth is that Metrorail in particular had been on a slow motion train wreck since 2008 when ridership peaked. Sure people can point to the quality of the staffing, however the neglect starts with the politicians who have destroyed the institutional capacity of WMATA so that they could use the agency for their own purposes, whether it was blatant corruption or serving their political ends, like prioritizing late night service and expansion over maintenance. At some point the deferred maintenance comes home to roost and here we are. Politicians absurd the agency and riders without accountability and now we see the consequences.[/quote]

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