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Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C.’s Metro must up its game. The region’s prosperity depends on it.

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Among the casualties of long-haul covid are the United States’ transit agencies, whose depleted riderships may take years to return to pre-pandemic levels. Passenger counts remain severely depressed, and the prognosis is for a protracted recovery. At D.C.’s Metro system, which serves the capital and its suburbs, officials project that rail ridership, now scarcely a quarter of what it was before the coronavirus struck, will recover to just 75 percent of 2019 numbers — by 2024.

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