Washington Metro Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) Metro train and bus system is facing a mammoth financial deficit of $750 million. The last few years of reduced ridership and inflation have exacerbated the Metro’s preexisting structural financial problems, and unlike the previous years, the coming fiscal years could see major cuts in service and wreak havoc…
Washington Metro Needs Sustainable Funding Solution to Fill $750 Million Shortfall
Washington DC Metro Trying Another Strategy to End Fare Evasion
March 23, 2023
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The D.C. Metro train system, WMATA (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority), just announced its plan to spend an additional $40 million to install newly designed fare gates at all of their stations, making it more difficult to evade fares and curb revenue loss. The installation of the new gates, which were tested last year at…
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