Metro has been charging full fare, getting full subsidies from jurisdictions PLUS the occasional bailout. Yet it provides skeletal service and has been for a long time.
What a win!
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we have been stuck between brookland and fort totten for nearly 40 minutes due to malfunction at fort totten. Now sending us back to Brookland. Wow. #dcmetro #wmata #redline #forttotten
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Metro gave a detailed breakdown of its failure to recertify more than half its train operators on time. Basically folks overseeing rail decided to stop retraining & focus on getting 7000 series trains back after the Oct derailment, & there was no oversight/accountability. #wmata
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$10 billion in Paris pays for 14 metro lines, 13 regional rail lines, 9 tram lines, 1500 bus routes
43 million trips per day!
#wmata's 2023 budget is $4.8 billion
Does Metro deliver the DC region half -- or even a tenth! -- of the transit service Paris gets?
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Paris Metro + RER + trams + bus service is a $10 billion transit system (about $2.5 billion comes from fares, $5 billion from a dedicated transport tax, and $2-3 billion in subsidies out of the general fund)
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the 96 bus going towards Capital Heights blew past stop ID1002337 at 6:18pm July 13 (today) despite several waiting customers. Please ask the bus driver not to do this again. We had some senior citizens who’ve been waiting for a while.
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I SAW AT LEAST 6 ppl jumping turnstiles w/o paying Not rally jumping, just stepping over. Shaw Howard station. I don’t know why I bother paying for a metro card
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1) add more trains; 2) decrease the wait times for each train; 3) lower the peak rates. Until ANY of these happen, I will personally jump each turnstile and then tell one other person to do the same each day, and tell them to tell one other person todo the same each day
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- thank you to bus #3145 driver this morning.
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Whoever is driving the Silver line that departed Reston at 0820 today was awesome! Love his enthusiastic morning announcement. Said he appreciated us riding. It’s the little things... 👍
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Stop being sorry and fix the problem. Discipline drivers that don’t show up! Where is the foreman standing with a clipboard monitoring arrival/departure times? Where is the leadership?Seems like NO ONE at Metro wants to do their jobs. This is an embarrassing nightmare for
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can someone tell me if the 7:21 G12 is planning to show up today? Now #4459 said 1 minute away & now has disappeared into that black hole. Several ppl out here trying to get to work
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Red Line trains are going to begin bypassing Wheaton due to a complete escalator outage at the station.
#WMATA
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That's it. I'm canceling my pass and riding for free. I just watched more than half of 16 passengers not pay on the bus...people of all ages. This...is ridiculous. Why am I doing the right thing and bring charged over $120/mo for that privilege?
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Got to be an Onion article. Must be an Onion article. Has to be an Onion article.
Please tell me that Richard Sarles is an adjunct professor there. #wmata
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Paul J. Wiedefeld, MCRP ‘81 has joined the VTC @VTC_Rutgers Advisory Board, effective July 1. He will be teaching Public Transit and Management at the Bloustein School in the Fall of 2022. bloustein.rutgers.edu/paul-wiedefeld #transportation
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this narrative needs to die a fiery death. Metro is and has been well funded via no-strings dedicated subsidies, not fares, for a LONG time.
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One would ask, "Why fewer riders?" And the answer to that IS WMATA's fault. And no, you can't use COVID as an excuse - decline in ridership goes back to 2008.
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Metro is inundated with funding
As subsidies went up 📈, ridership went down 📉
In 2020, even before the pandemic, the annualized subsidy per weekday commuter was about $4800
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If it was a highway it would have been inundated with funding.
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Metro isn't "underfunded"
#wmata subsidies are way up - both in absolute terms and as a proportion of Metro's overall budget
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It's really not @wmata's fault - it's a vicious cycle. Fewer riders -> less revenue -> cut service or raise rates or both -> fewer riders. Unless we decide to fund public transportation adequately.
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this narrative needs to die a fiery death. Metro is and has been well funded via no-strings dedicated subsidies, not fares, for a LONG time.
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Just like yesterday's tweet - Blue Line trains run every 20 minutes, not every 15. This is misleading. #WMATA
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Blue Line Alert: Until 3pm, trains running every 15 mins w/single tracking btwn Franconia & Van Dorn Street due to scheduled track work.
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Because I want to keep my phone out of reach of all of the fare gate jumpers at Fort Totten. There is no way I would pull out my phone at the fare gate when a plastic card is simple to keep in my back pocket or the palm of my hand (and is worthless if stolen).
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This is Metro where drivers do what they want, work when they want and drive when they want. With NO accountability 🤷🏻♀️
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"I came back to Metro because of the new fare gates."
--No one.
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Instead of shoveling more money into Metro's unaccountable maw, the DC/MD/VA governments could give every pre-pandemic daily commuter a new, free cargo e-bike *every year* for less than #wmata's annual budget
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As of today, 2,000 more Denverites can claim a $400 rebate for buying an e-bike or $900 for a cargo bike (low-income residents can get $1,200).
This program is a big hit, one that state/city DOTs nationwide should be studying.
westword.com/news/denver-eb
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Let's chat when you stop charging peak fares for slower-than-weekend service
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"I came back to Metro because of the new fare gates."
--No one.
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is doing its level-best to literally destroy demand for its product. Weekend headways are laughably preposterous and weekday rush ain’t much better. So sad for someone old enough to remember a better Metro
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