By Tyler Durden | 1 December 2020
ZERO HEDGE — It’s not just New York that is facing draconian cuts to its mass transit infrastructure and workforce as the city slides into financial ruin: the country’s capital is doing everything it can to catch up. Facing a hole in the budget of nearly a half-billion dollars, the general manager of Washington D.C’s Metro is proposing massive budget cuts to rail and bus service that would take effect this summer.
General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said in September that without more federal help, big cuts would be needed. Since then things have only gone from bard to worse and as WJLA reports, overall rail ridership is down more than 85% most weekdays, while bus ridership is less than half what it was in 2019.
Among the things Wiedefeld is proposing for Metrorail:
- Closing 19 stations – Archives, Arlington Cemetery, Cheverly, Clarendon, Cleveland Park, College Park, East Falls Church, Eisenhower Avenue, Federal Center SW, Federal Triangle, Greensboro, Grosvenor-Strathmore, Judiciary Square, McLean, Morgan Boulevard, Mount Vernon Square, Smithsonian, Van Dorn Street, Virginia Square-GMU
- Eliminating rail service on Saturday and Sunday
- Having trains run only every half hour on each line. Stations served by two lines would have trains every 15 minutes as would Red Line stations between Silver Spring and Medical Center
- Closing rail stations early at 9 p.m. weekdays
- Reintroducing “turnbacks” where not all Red and Yellow line trains go to the end of the line, and only having Silver Line service run between Ashburn (when it opens) and Ballston
In addition, Metrobus would also face big cuts. Wiedefeld is proposing only having a total of 41 bus routes. Those routes would be longer, covering the same territory that 60 bus lines currently cover. […]
The planned decline and destruction of this once great country.
We need to restart / rebirth it as it was / is meant to be:
http://pppway.net/MiraculousRebirth.htm
Who needs the Federal Reserve?
Only half the citizens give a crap about truth, and hard work. It will take an act of God to turn this around.
Then why not the people who care about the truth and the drive to do something about it? Who wants to live in this disgusting, dead and degenerate world all these psychos are creating? The act of God is at the end of that link–we also have to communicate it–“Ask, and it shall be given” — Matthew 7:7 It can happen. We just need to unite with the idea of this other way. Are you game?