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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1.  There is nothing about being pro-transit that requires you to be pro-WMATA

2. It is plainly a fact that Metrorail is MUCH more dangerous now than it was years ago

3. It is plainly a fact that Metrorail is MUCH leas reliable now than it was years ago

4. It is plainly a fact that Metrorail is MUCH more expensive now, for a MUCH less safe and reliable product, than it was years ago

5. It is also plainly a fact that Metrorail employees are grotesquely overpaid and completely impossible to fire.  A “station manager” who is a non-supervisory union employee and manages nothing makes $80k.  A clerk in a bus depot, and BTW not a driver, makes $90k.  They have eight different categories of fare cash handlers and the get $80k.  A WMATA cop starts over $60k and moves up to $121k PLUS overtime (Comment from a prosecutor: I will never make as much as a WMATA police sergeant.).

You might support what you think is public transit.  But WMATA is merely public employment.

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All true.[/quote]

All of those "facts" are actually opinions.[/quote]

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