OK, so after 2 major fires and one fatality, they shut the DC Metro down for inspection today

[Warpy]

Just look at what they found in 6 places, inspection only 80% complete:

[SamKnause]

1. The owners of this country have decided that no money will be

spent on improving or rebuilding our infrastructure.

Our tax dollars are to be used for invasions, wars, coups, occupations,

military hardware and weapons, imprisonment of our citizens, subsidies for

multi billion dollar corporations, and bailouts for Wall Street.

[JDPriestly]

10. Great post.

[SamKnause]

11. Thank you.

I wish everything that I typed was a lie, but alas it is the truth.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Actually, our tax money is to go to them directly with no actual reason needed.

[Nitram]

2. Yeah, it's good Metro is taking safety seriously.

But why the hell didn't they give commuters a couple of days to make alternative arrangements? Assholes.

[passiveporcupine]

3. And how many people can die in those couple of days

and it's OK with you so you won't be inconvenienced?

WTF?

[Nitram]

4. Porcupine, be a little more open-mined when you listen, okay? I'm not a mass murderer.

I totally approve of the safety measures. I think Metro should have given commuters a little advance notice. Got it? I just expect managers to do a little better job of managing. Is that too much to ask? Maybe they could have acted sooner? You think?

[passiveporcupine]

6. Yes they could have acted sooner...but they didn't

So once they found a serious problem, they should have just given you notice, in spite of how many things might have gone wrong?

Come on...did you look at that mess? It needed to be fixed now, not in a couple of days.

[Nitram]

15. It's not like this problem suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Obviously it has been building up over the years. To put off proper maintenance and safety inspections for that long and then announce a shut-down on the same day is poor management, to say the least.

[zebonaut]

5. The Senate doesn't have to take the DC Metro. They don't care if people burn up in a fire

Infrastructure

[HassleCat]

7. Metro reflects the DC government in general.

There are breakdowns, fires, etc. The elevator and escalators work about half the time. They have plenty of employees, and spend lots of money, but the system is a shambles. The Russians run their antique system in Moscow better than DC Metro, and they haul like ten times the passengers. Poor DC is just screwed, can't do anything right.

[elleng]

13. 'The Washington Metro, commonly called Metro and branded Metrorail,[5] is the rapid transit system

serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which also operates Metrobus service under the Metro name.[6] Besides the District, Metro serves several jurisdictions in Maryland and Virginia. In Maryland, Metro provides service to Montgomery and Prince George's counties; in Virginia, to Fairfax and Arlington counties and the independent city of Alexandria. The system is currently being expanded into Loudoun County, Virginia. The Metro service area is largely coextensive with the inner ring of the Washington metropolitan area. Opened in 1976, the network now includes six lines, 91 stations, and 117 miles (188 km) of route.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Metro

[ErikJ]

8. Maybe a Koch brothers hit job

they have fought electric mass transit in every city for the past 35 yrs. Portland OR went thru hell trying to get and expand light rail b/c of those assholes. Theyre still funding the opposition for more expansion.

[kjones]

9. Damn! Well, least they're paying closer attention now. nt

[Rex]

12. Pizza rat need to floss his teeth? WTF?

Okay so what the hell did that? Don't tell me that is from neglect.