The Washington Post, 4/4:
Dr. Gridlock
Riders vent about Metrorail rebuilding strategy
Whether or not Metro ever gets to the point of closing a line for lengthy repairs, the discussion of it has allowed riders to focus on their dissatisfaction with the five-year-old transit rebuilding strategy and distrust about what comes next.
My online chat Monday was dominated by those themes, but there were many comments I didn’t get a chance to publish. Here are some of those, followed by my responses.
[See a transcript of the Dr. Gridlock chat]
WMATA
What is left to be said? Years of travel disruptions, weekend travel on Metro made unreliable, billions of taxpayer dollars and apparently the system is at best in the same condition that it was and perhaps in worse condition. And what is WMATA’s response to all of this? Give us more money and let us disrupt service even more than before and we promise to fix it right this time. . . .
Continue here.