Richest country in the history of the world can’t keep its capital city subway running on weekends
https://twitter.com/JWPascale/status/1333591708282531840
Infrastructure week has become a joke but the reality is we’ve squandered a decade of historically cheap financing because free market ideologues in the Republican party don’t believe in public goods or that government can help people.
Fwiw, I love the DC Metro. I always have. I love the architecture, the convenience, the easy access to downtown from the MD and VA suburbs, the overall cleanliness (really!), the environmental benefit over driving, & the reliability (overheated summer tracks notwithstanding).
Most of all, I find it remarkably evocative. Riding the Metro is a tour of power and policy in the United States. But it also humanizes power. You see the *people* that make the government work riding it. Most are ordinary functionaries. Some wield enormous power.
Many wear distinctive lanyards. Some are in uniform. Others are the essential journalists who hold power to account. Some are visitors from around the country and around the world.
No joke, I could ride the Metro all day, in ways I know I personally wouldn’t enjoy riding Boston’s T or New York’s subway.
And it’s a tremendous embarrassment to the whole damn world if we can’t manage to keep it running.
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