Then you better rent some buses....
Ouch.
Ain’t mass transit great. We use to build a Liberty ship every 3 days. Now it takes months to rewire the primary on one subway route.
Having lived in the area for 3.5 years and used the rail/bus system greatly (I lived there without a car)...I can make these observations.
1. After each summer, there would be weekends when they’d close an entire line and make life miserable for just that weekend....while telling us of their massive maintenance on that ‘project’. Well...so these weekend closures for the last decade....what did they really accomplish? I’m not buying into this talk here unless they admit that they literally did nothing with each weekend closure.
2. The rest of this story is that they need literally a minimum of one billion dollars. They don’t want to raise tickets or cut services....so they need Virginia, DC, Maryland, and the Feds....to cough up the billion. Where do you think DC’s chunk of donation will come from? The Feds. So everyone outside of the beltway....is contributing to make this marginalized system work. Most Americans won’t buy into that.
3. What they aren’t really saying is that it’s all the lines. If you notice how they word this....it’s certain lines. Why? Were certain lines just looked over and avoided during the past decade of maintenance?
4. Finally, maybe it’s time to hire some review board to come in and look over Metro management and suggest certain people need to leave because they can’t do their work.
You got that right. Regular maintenance and PM's would have negated the need for this kind of drastic action. I'm glad I don't live or work in or near DC. This will be a nightmare...on steroids.
Anybody know if other cities (Chicago, New York, London, etc.) shut down their lines for months at a time?
Maybe those of us in Oklahoma should ante up some Federal gas tax money to build and support that system. OH . . . Wait.
Well, maybe we should just send a whole lot more.
The mugger-robber express will temporarily cease to deliver miscreants to better neighborhoods with fancier pickings. What’s the downside?
Looks like it’s been affirmative actioned into obsolescence.
Because its Union and Government, synonyms.