Today was another sad day in the area, with two more deaths in the Washington, D.C. area Metro system. These mounting fatalities add to the question of how well-equipped Metro will be to handle the tens of thousands of people planned to use the White Flint Sector on a daily basis. The article in The Examiner, here, by reporter Kytja Weir, provides details on this tragedy.
Each day we read about this failing system. In just two days this week The Examiner ran the following stories about Metro. ‘Area Transit Riders pinched amid budget crunch; and ‘New Metro Board member sees serious disorder’ in transit agency.’ The last highlights comments by Mortimer L. Downey, former director of the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, who was recently appointed to the Metro Board by the feds. Downey said that our system is in 'serious disorder,' and 'things are not good.'
Those of us who ride the red line daily know things are not good.
So, how can a plan be ‘in balance’ when it is relying on a fantasy transit system?
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