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Posted by Scrabbleship on Wed Jun 30 15:05:26 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Wed Jun 30 13:03:50 2010. They conducted a survey and pretty much gave the riders what they asked for.I'd love to meet these mythical riders who wanted a rush hour surcharge on top of already high peak hour fares. If peak hour fares are so good, why hasn't anyone (even BART) tried it? Did you take the survey? Yes I did. And I said that if fares had to go up it should be balanced (i.e. no more cheap ride for Metrobus) that they should go up within reason and that it might be time to reevaluate what Metrorail is. You want to have it both ways. You want WMATA to fix what it has and improve service, but you aren't willing to pay for it. It doesn't work like that. If it worked like that, a lot more cities would be well above $2 in one-way fares or doing rush hour surcharges. The option I want is available in New York, Philly, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, pretty much everywhere but DC. WMATA has encouraged its riders to write their legislators to get more funding, but how many people do you think actually do that? Have you? I think getting all of the WMATA compact jurisdictions to become their own state would be easier than to get Annapolis/Richmond to realize they would be screwed without the DC suburbs and to give them fair funding. But that's just the cynical "all non-federal government is crooked" ex-Upstate New Yorker in me. |
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