ARRA- (Washington, D.C.) – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser its April 2018 Porker of the Month for attempting to bail out the failing Washington Metrorail system by taxing Uber and Lyft riders.
The Metrorail system in Washington, D.C. has been in crisis for nearly a decade. It has been dubbed, “the worst in the world,” and its financial situation has been labeled a “death spiral.” The system has become infamous for train derailments, track fires, disabled trains, long delays, and even fatalities.
Most of these issues stem from internal failures and a lack of accountability. Even after shutting down huge sections of track affecting numerous stations for months at a time in order to fix arching insulators in 2016, the number of track fires rose in 2017. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) was forced to fire of a third of its inspection staff in 2017 because they were caught falsifying track reports. On March 3, 2018, Federal Transit Authority inspection notes revealed that WMATA track workers were still reclassifying badly defective tracks so they would not have to repair them. read more
Mismanagement, unions, insider contracts, corruption and democrat administration, a recipe for disaster. When the inevitable disaster hits, the tax payers are hit again.
Or, or….Washington DC could just take over lyft and uber, and semi-nationalize it. That would be the most communist thing to do to save their pet project…
Thanks for letting me know about how bad the metro has become. It’s just one of many reasons to not go into DC.
But Democrat-controlled cities are run by the smartest people in the world. How could this happen?
This is what happens when you try to pack millions of people into an area, just for the taxes. And then half the citizens collect and don’t put in.
I’m confused. is she a porker or a bowser?
the highest paid transit union in the world is also the most racist. Non black employees who aspire to reach too high suddenly find themselves victims of slanderous performance ratings, work-to-the-rule supervision, and ultimately termination. The purpose of Metro is not to move people, but to provide high-paying, no-skill jobs for black DC residents. Fact of the matter is that nobody in a position of authority knows anything about how to run a railroad.