Metro's $1 billion budget
On the heels of the recent Washington Post series detailing mismanagement at Metro comes the agency's budget proposal, which for the first time tops $1 billion, says today's Post.
The plan would at 25 buses and 62 rail cars to ease overcrowding. Local governments are being asked to pay $434.4 million, 8 percent higher than the current budget. No fare increase is included; Metro riders have seen fares rise twice in the past two years and they already pay two-thirds of the operating budget, according to the paper.
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Two thirds? I thought it was closer to a half, maybe there is hope. Of course we still have to consider deferred maintenance, periodic major maintenance and reconstruction, and retirement and health plan costs. As I understand it local governments are balking at upping their share of the new costs.
I have been wondering when Metro stopped washing the cars as the formerly gleaming vehicles have become increasingly grungy looking. Then I saw one of the cars in its new suit of advertising and I understood why the exterior of the cars was no longer maintained. I'm not a big fan of putting billboards on vehicles, didn't we just spend 20 years getting them off the roadways? Still, the advertising was an improvement over grungy IMHO.
Today they ran Orange line trains (during rush hour) every 8-10 minutes. Brilliant!
One of these days somebody is going to go postal on the Metro because they're 30 minutes late for work and they have a big presentation...
Go Postal, that's funny. Recently I tried to explain that idiom to one of my Spanish speaking friends.....
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