it's nothing new - whether it's Japan over-spending on a super-man train or England's subway it's the same thing: government workers acting like a gorilla with a bannanna and the banana is your tax money.

metro in recent years has seen SEVERAL serious issues:

0) way over budget, and many metro workers taking cash from banks all over the region - fistfulls of cash and driving luxury cars

1) gov workers trying to abduct automobiles telling citizens "you can take the metro"

2) niggers trying to steal credit cards at payment areas

3) prices higher than cost of owning a vehicle and driving

4) people fired from GOV jobs because their GOV transit failed to be on time

5) in DC, the use of the metro as something to push "unwanted persons" in front of to dispose of bodies, always follwed by news the person "was depressed"

6) severe accidents and casualties due to lack of maintenance

7) flat refusals when urged by Congress to "fix it"

8) refusals of management to leave after failure and after being told to leave

9) MINORITIES AND METRO WORKERS, OTHER "SPECIAL CLASS" GOV WORKERS ARE NOT PAYING FARES - they are on "special programs" that give them free rides. the rate hike IS FOR WHITE PEOPLE ONLY, not for the obama government cadre

this is what your local lying COMMUNIST LOYAL well paid off news agencies, like WTOP, never ever tell you in the news and never chase down

the money, the money, the money

it's the topic they continually steer clear of that is the only thing that makes a damn difference

Take Uber or Lyft.


Uber has something called Uberpool and Lyft has something called Lyftline that are only about a buck more than they bus or subway. Sometimes you have to wait a while for either 1 of them, since the drivers hate them and won't take the calls. Eventually, though, some dumb Ethiopian or Somali will take them. Of course, this means you have to ride all over the place in a smelly car w/a smelly driver who gets lost, but eventually, you get there.

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Rideshare4buttpirates Wrote:
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> Take Uber or Lyft.
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are those my choices you give me?

how about fuck off i'll drive if you like it or not - and know that's what all the gov workers promoting and maintaining metro do: they drive they don't use metro, mostly

I thought we might be getting a reasonably informed discussion about how raising rates at a time of declining ridership due to unreliable and occasionally unsafe operations, dirty cars and unreliably enforced rules would result in further ridership declines, and possibly lead to a death spiral instead of a racist and anti-government diatribe.

Also Metrorail not timely/reliable 1/3 of time, so cannot use for timed commitments. Besides above, another gave gave up on the Metrorail trains before Thanksgiving last year, and was using it less a year before that. Nearly all day-to-day needs can take care of here in the suburbs usually within 5-10 miles, and seldom have need to go into the city/DC.

ccchk Wrote:
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> I thought we might be getting a reasonably
> informed discussion about how raising rates at a
> time of declining ridership due to unreliable and
> occasionally unsafe operations, dirty cars and
> unreliably enforced rules would result in further
> ridership declines, and possibly lead to a death
> spiral instead of a racist and anti-government
> diatribe.

It's possible. But you must admit that any solution starts with a full de-niggering of the system.

Metro's workforce was heavily African American from its early days, and the work rules were overly generous. That did not keep Metro from being a clean and reliable and relatively safe system well into the 1990s. With adequate funding and good management it could have gone on longer, even with aging track and equipment. Metro's weakness has been more concerned with serving the interests of politicians than with serving its paying customers.

And Gov borrowing money from China Funds Metro, Welfare and gov employees do get special passes. You may see them "paying" , there really not

I know liberals who live in "White DC" that rode Metro for years, when a gang screaming blacks got on and harassed a older white man for nothing last year she and her friends ride only as a last resort

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> Metro's workforce was heavily African American
> from its early days, and the work rules were
> overly generous. That did not keep Metro from
> being a clean and reliable and relatively safe
> system well into the 1990s. With adequate funding
> and good management it could have gone on longer,
> even with aging track and equipment. Metro's
> weakness has been more concerned with serving the
> interests of politicians than with serving its
> paying customers.

Barry Farms was a gorgeous neighborhood full of new homes when it was built. But niggers moved in...and look at it now. In a very short period of time it went from brand new to a complete shithole. Metro was no different. You had white mgmt doing what they could into the 80's to keep them above water. Once they left, it was only a matter of time before the ship sank.

METRO...open for 41 years and I ain't never taken that nigger-hauler once.

I don't care for the racism on this board, but of course, given that this is a public forum, am not surprised by it.

I am a bit surprised by comments such as Bill N.'s above, who is likely in part correct - long term funding for Metro has never been adequate and this was the case from its inception.

But it is delusional to deny the racial angles with Metro. 98 percent of its workforce belongs to one racial group, and the organization discriminates based on race with impunity. I get it - progressives don't view it as discrimination because Metro sustains a large black lower middle class and that is deemed a virtue above all else - but given that the overarching objective which belongs to Metro management and the union is to sustain a work force of racially preferred employees, it is very hard to make the case that Metro is in any way an effective or efficient organization. Of course, the lack of long term funding makes the cultural problem worse.

And there is another racial angle. Crime is increasingly a problem on Metro, and crime of the violent sort - the kind most likely to drive riders away - is committed by one racial group. One can dismiss this by saying it is mostly about young people with not enough to do, and all of the associated progressive bromides. But crime is impacting ridership. And it creates fear. And this is not a problem that money or capital improvements can resolve.