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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Fri Jul 2 00:52:57 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Thu Jul 1 23:54:32 2010. So you don't see anything wrong with a $10 one-way fare when people are having trouble coping with a $5 fare? Even I would balk at paying that for a subway ride.Like I said, Metrorail has to stop living in its own Universe where it can think it's a premium commuter service. The reality is it is an urban rapid transit system and has to cater to the needs of a diverse urban population. DC certainly isn't going to be ponying up any more money for WMATA as long as Fenty is in office. How about Virginia and Maryland ante up enough to make my Beyond the Beltway fee unnecessary instead? That way everyone would get a flat $2 per trip fare off-peak and maybe $0.25 or $0.5 higher in peak. Something that has disappeared since the economic downturn started in 2007 is the regional approach to tackling transit matters that had started taking root. First Virginia started bitching about money, then Maryland, and last but not least, DC. Virginia has made it quite clear they would rather build new roads they can make money for themselves from rather than work on fixing the problems with rail that they had a role in creating. (The way they're fucking up VRE is another example of what their thinking is.) Maryland MTA needs to have their air and water checked for controlled substances the way they have been (not) handling oversight of MARC and their boneheaded insistence on moving ahead with the Purple Line. The District isn't much better than the other two, but at least it is still pretty committed to Metro and public transit. The biggest problem here is Fenty and his ego and incompetence. |
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