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Washington Post Editorial Board: Confronting Metro’s looming fiscal cliff

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Nearly five years ago, the Republican-led legislature in Virginia joined forces with Democrats who dominated Maryland and D.C. to establish an earmarked annual subsidy of hundreds of millions of dollars for Metro, the capital’s transit system, which opened in 1976. Weeks before the deal was clinched, many considered it a long shot. Ultimately, partisan rivals on both sides of the Potomac acknowledged that the region’s economic vitality was inseparable from the fiscal stability of the bus and rail network that binds it together, and they acted.

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