LinkLinks Washington Post: When it comes to reversing the ridership slide, Metro’s leaders don’t have a plan By Editor On Sep 30, 2018 46 Share Metro’s ridership keeps falling, and the system’s leaders are at a loss for how to fix it. Once comfortably the nation’s second-busiest subway, Metro has lost 125,000 average daily trips over the past decade, plunging it into a quarterly battle with the Chicago Transit Authority for the distinction. But as causes of the trend become increasingly clear, the transit agency’s leaders are no more certain of how to address the decline. In conversations with all eight Metro board members and the agency’s chief executive over the past week, none was willing to commit to pushing for increased service, for example — despite a consultant’s conclusion that service was the key factor in riders’ decisions to abandon the system. MetroRidershipTransportationWashington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 46 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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