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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know how they could reduce housing prices in DC? Fund the subway. Making living outside the city more convenient. As people voted with their feet, and moved to Virginia or Maryland, that would bring down rents in the District. Of course, that would require our elected leaders to stop chronically shortchanging the metro, which will probably never happen. [/quote]

Metro has never added the stops that would make it profitable and useful. It should be funded solely by the fares if it really is competitive with other commuting options. However, metro has become a pension plan that runs a transportation system. [/quote]

It costs 200 to 300 million to add an infill stop on an existing line. Unless you have massive density on the way (NoMa or Potomac Yard) its simply too hard to justify. [/quote]

Our elected officials could start by taking care of the metro we have. The main problem is our elected officials have for many many years refused to pay for basic maintenance of the system. That's the backlog that Wiedefeld is now trying to dig out from under. [/quote]

Metro wasn't going to build in Potomac Yard until the Amazon HQ2 deal was finalized. A perfect opportunity that is ignored until Metro can find someone to bleed. Metro deferred maintenance because they couldn't afford maintenance and the pension plan. Further, inspectors never managed to find anything that needed maintenance because they didn't know how to do their jobs. Every project run by Metro has cost overruns or is screwed over by low bid shoddy construction and gets built twice.[/quote]

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