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Metro Fare Increases Going To Hiring More Workers
So, to recap...
1) Metro service this year is going to get worse because of repairs.
2) Metro service may get more expensive. A lot more expensive for people who use paper fare cards. But the Post notes that Metro says that the increased revenue isn't going to toward repairs, it's just covering a budget shortfall to [...]
Metro to Raise Fares, Attempt to Kill Paper Farecards
Remember when we told you that Metrorail service was about to get worse this year because of maintenance? It's also going to get more expensive. WMATA will be pushing for a 5 percent fare increase for Smartrip card users and a flat fee for the 17 percent of customers who still use paper farecards. And [...]
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Metro Spent $200,000 on a Study Imagining D.C. with No Metro
In a study released last month, WMATA conducted quite the thought experiment: What if there weren't a transit system at all?
WMATA took the same transportation demand model that it uses to project ridership on a new line and instead ran a couple of scenarios with the region’s transit literally turned off. All of it: the [...]
