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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is the reality of cars.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/one-driver-with-186k-in-unpaid-tickets-what-dc-ticket-data-shows/3339753/
https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crashes-cost-america-billions-2019
https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/highways

-An "anti-car fascist", probably, who knows that the Purple Line we've been waiting 40 years for is not a WMATA project
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But at least in this reality people can actually get from point A to point B in a timely and affordable manner.  How will they do that when the metro has to double their fare prices in order to stay solvent and they’re cutting service to the bone so much people have to wait 30+ minutes between trains or there is no service after 930 PM, which makes it impossible to do a lot of weekend activities?

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Agreed. The region needs a well-functioning public transit system. This must be a funding priority for all of the local jurisdictions. [/quote]

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