A 🧵with my thoughts:
- Thx you, agree Metro is high quality & we are proud of our recovery driven by safe frequent reliable service.
- Agree we must never stop trying to be efficient using public money smartly
- This misses context of variable vs fixed costs (ridership\labor)
D.C. transit ridership has recovered from the pandemic better than most U.S. transit systems, after falling further.
Yet taxpayers who don’t take the train or bus are increasingly subsidizing those who do, and it’s not sustainable.
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