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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A joke of a public transit system, especially for the capital city of the U.S.[/quote]

Pretty much stopped reading here. Figured the rest of the rant was equally misinformed.[/quote]

Different poster here...but DC Metro is certainly a joke, and you'd know if you had lived in any other big or capital city in a developed cointry, or even here in DC twenty years ago.

Let me guess, you are in high school.

Or work in WMATA.[/quote]

NP here. But it is not DC Metro. It is WMATA which includes Maryland and Virginia. I have lived in a really, bigly city. It is called NYC. And yes, we had issues with our transit system as well. Fights, killings, muggings, broken down trains, filth inside and outside the trains, riding in-between cars for safety, you name it.  The difference between the transit system in NY and the DC Metro is that the people finally organized and started making the pols accountable. NY finally received dedicated funding, something WMATA does not have.

I read in the Post that WMATA falls in the middle when comparing problems with the system. SEPTA, Chicago, NY, Atlanta and a couple of others have more fires and breakdowns. Perhaps because you are in DC you've become uninformed or uninterested in the other systems and only see failure, when there may be progress. I get that the system needs fixing, but to say it is a joke and that other big cities do it better is not true. At least that's what analysis reported in Post showed anyway. [/quote]

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