WMATA to form Riders Advisory Council
It's been mentioned in this space before, but it finally looks certain.
While some of the 12 Metro board members ride the trains, very few ride Metrobus, and only one is a daily rider. All but one Metro board member, Charles Deegan of Prince George's County, have refused to release records documenting the frequency of their travel on the Metro system.
I'm glad this is an issue and it shows that we in D.C. have an excellent transit system that people are expected to use. I mean, in Denver where I'm from, no one even thought to ask whether the elected board rode the bus, and the issue did not even surface in campaigns.
Metro received a public comment: "For example, I believe a Riders Advisory Council could have warned about the absurdity of reducing Metrorail trains to two cars in the evening." True, but I think it's scary we even need a RAC for that. Metro managers could have stood on a platform at night and realized what a stupid idea this was! It would seem to me that they could even have figured out the absurdity of this idea by examining ridership data from the faregates!
Hopefully the RAC will be a check on the occasional ineptitude of Metro managers and board members.
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massysett | 10:56 AM |
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