What can we do with Metro?
I’m starting an internship on the hill on Monday, so it’s likely you’ll be hearing about my experiences with Metro, which is and always has been my enemy. It’s attempted to stop me from going to a protest as well as charging me twice the fare on multiple occasions. It is inefficient and costly, and there’s not really a good option to get from Franconia/Springfield to Capitol South weekly or monthly either than paying the full fare–from what I can tell the weekly pass would only save me $5 or so a week if I’m commuting during rush hour five days a week. An unpaid internship that provides no stipend means that I’ll be spending a few hundred dollars over the summer to sit in the gross metro cars for 45 minutes every morning and afternoon. If anyone sees something I’m missing here, let me know.
Who’s your nanny? has an argument up for the privatization of metro, which also criticizes Tom Davis. Seems to me like privatization might make metro be at least tolerable, or at least make more sense. They note that Davis says:
Metro’s virtually the sole means by which the nation’s capital could be evacuated in case of manmade or natural disaster. And it could be the only means by which federal workers could reach their offices keep the government functioning with another 9/11-type event.
If metro’s how we’re all getting out, we’re screwed, even if we fund it more.
