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Just When You Think DC Metro Can’t Get Any Worse………..

written by Jeanine Martin March 30, 2016

Metro board chairman Jack Evans has announced that segments of Washington Metro may be shut down for up 6 months to do the necessary extended repairs.  At a minimum some lines will be shut down for extended periods of time.

“The system right now, in order to do the maintenance that needs to be done, cannot be done on three hours a night and on weekends. It just can’t,” said Evans, who also is a D.C. Council member (D-Ward 2).

 

“So in order to do repairs that are necessary, it may come to the point where we have to close the entire Blue Line for six months. People will go crazy. But there are going to be hard decisions that have to be made in order to get this fixed,” Evans said.

Evans singled out the Blue Line several times but said any of the 6 lines may be closed for extended periods of time.

The New York Subway system was built over a hundred years ago has never had shut downs of 6 months. It was built by the private sector and not the government which may explain the difference between our system and their’s. The Federal government designed and built Washington’s Metro system with very expensive labor and cheap parts.

Who will pay for all this maintenance?  You guessed it, the taxpayer!  From the Post article,

Evans also said repeatedly that the District, Maryland and Virginia, as well as the federal government, need to contribute more money to support the system or see it deteriorate further.

 

He said the District, Maryland and Virginia should create a dedicated funding source, such as a regional sales tax, to provide an additional $1 billion a year to Metro for capital investment such as maintenance. The federal government should kick in $300 million a year for operations, he said.
Whatever happened to the massive transportation tax increase that Bob McDonnell stuck us with in 2013?  Has anyone’s commute improved? Now they want ANOTHER tax increase to pay for Metro maintenance?  
 
Let’s fact it, Metro is a bottomless pit of need.  We tried to warn our Loudoun Supervisors when Scott York insisted that Loudoun sign on to the awful metro system.  We tried to tell people, it doesn’t improve traffic. (Look around Vienna and tell me where traffic was improved by the several metro stops in Vienna and Tysons Corner.)  Now Loudoun is stuck paying 4% of every metro bill that comes due.  If they shut down the Blue Line for 6 months (you know their estimates will be off by at least double the time), and it costs the system a billion dollars, that means Loudoun pays $40 million of the bill.  In addition to that they want a billion a year to pay for maintenance!  Good luck paying that bill without raising taxes.  Of course we could always get the state to pay part of the bill.  Why not stick struggling coal miners in southwest Virginia with the bill for our lemon of a metro system so that folks in Ashburn can spend an hour and a half getting to work and pay $15 for the privilege? A big tip of the hat to those 5 Loudoun supervisors who voted us into this never ending boondoggle, Scott York, Matt Letourneau, Ralph Buona, Shawn Williams, and Ken Reid.  Be sure to thank them when your taxes go up.  “We told you” just isn’t enough.  
Just When You Think DC Metro Can’t Get Any Worse……….. was last modified: March 30th, 2016 by Jeanine Martin
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Jeanine Martin

Also known as Lovettsville Lady, I am a Republican activist in the wilds of western Loudoun County.

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