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Big winner: [b]WMATA[/b]. [/quote]

WMATA would be a big winner if it got its act together. A sizeable portion of its fleet is still out for repairs and rush hour is a debacle.[/quote]

Wrong. Rush hour is fine. Want to experience a debacle during rush hour? Try driving down 66 every day instead.[/quote]

[b]All of the new Metro trains were recalled and are being fixed because of safety issues. How does that engender confidence in public transit when you have to recall your entire new fleet because they’re unsafe.[/b]

Some people also don’t want to deal with the growing safety issues on Metro either. Riding the DC Metro is a far cry from riding public transit on Stockholm or Hong Kong. Don’t act like Americans are spoiled because they don’t want to ride an underfunded, unsafe, crime ridden system that their counterparts in these places would scoff at.

Yes, a place like Copenhagen has higher gas prices. But it’s cycling network, urban design, and transit system blow this city’s out of the water. So why are Americans spoiled when they don’t have the same alternatives? [/quote]

HAHAHA, a safety recall? Like car manufacturers do all the time, like Tesla literally recalling a half million vehicles just last month? Oh, but Metro does it and you've lost confidence. Talk about spoiled!

Also, your description of Copenhagen sounds like you're arguing for more investment and priority for non-car transit options. I agree! [/quote]

You sound like a ideologue who just hates cars. There’s a reason the former COO of Metro resigned. Buying an entirely new fleet of trains only to recall them all for months because they’re unsafe is not a trivial matter. It is an embarrassing stain on a system that already was embarrassing for the capital of a developed nation.

And yes, I’m all for spending a lot more for transit, changing zoning laws to incentivize higher density next to transit, etc. Hopefully we can do it for a lower cost than is being incurred for the metro in NYC and our costs are more in line with what they pay per mile of public transit in France.

What I’m definitely not for is a bunch of privileged UMC and rich folks lecturing already financially stressed working class and middle class people about the nobility of suffering under higher gas prices while all of this infrastructure is yet to be built.[/quote]

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