The Washington Post, 4/27:
Dr. Gridlock
Is Metro really so bad?
By Paul Duggan
After studying a half-dozen big transit agencies — in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth and Minneapolis-St. Paul — Joshua Schank, president of the D.C.-based Eno Center for Transportation, has some positive things to say about the Washington area’s much-criticized subway system.
“The grass is always greener, right?” said Schank, referring to a gripe often heard on Metro’s trains and station platforms: Many Washington-area commuters who are familiar with public transit in other cities say they’ve never experienced a subway less reliable than Metro.
Yet their counterparts in New York, Boston, Chicago and elsewhere tend to voice the same complaint about their transit networks, said Schank, whose nonpartisan think tank recently published a study of transit governance in different parts of the country. The group’s research was conducted last year.
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