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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. Automate out all those worthless employees who don't do anything anyway. Cut salaries.  The only meat you need are engineers and maintenance crews.  Everyone else are highly overpaid leeches getting paid multiple six figures to do nothing. They also get pensions for doing no work. Cut pensions too.

The whole thing is in a death spiral. The workers are bankrupting the system, which means they have to increase prices. But increased prices discourage ridership, so the revenue declines. Rinse and repeat, it's a vicious cycle.  The only solution Democrats ever come up with is raising price and taxes.  Maybe they should learn for once that they have spending problems.

The metro is ridiculously expensive.  No wonder why people stop taking it. [/quote]

This. You gotta look at spending. Ridership is down, but not so much that it alone would explain the funding gap. Especially since prices are up. Uncollected fares are a very small part of the problem, especially after the new fare gates. What is the biggest category of spending? Salaries. Sucks to say, but WMATA has been a DC jobs program for far too long, and everyone knows it[/quote]

Remember when WMATA hired basically anyone to do track inspections and those employees signed off on track inspections?

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/report-details-numerous-problems-with-metros-track-inspection-and-maintenance-program[/quote]

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