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10 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
I wonder what everyone thinks about having their rail service cut! Better rush to public comment to find out. 🙄 #wmata
It's smart for #WMATA to consider what its budget situation will look like without more federal money and prepare accordingly, but going forward with this now may very well end up confusing riders if the worst-case scenario does not come to fruition.
She's right, and #WMATA's Lynn Bowersox is visibly frustrated by the line of questioning and suggestion that the board is rushing the process, trying to get this in before the new year.
On at least the latter point, he is correct. #wmata
Okay, c'mon, when was the last time public input collected through #WMATA's public input process was used to go/no-go a particular budget line item? It's a box those in charge can check off and that's about it.

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11 Dec
Is this a Trump Administration press release? #wmata
Friendly reminder that a law firm's inability to substantiate allegations does not mean they aren't true, especially when other allegations *were* substantiated. #wmata
"No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION." #wmata
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10 Dec
#WMATA is now playing last month's @wmataRAC update video instead of the correct one for this month.
do we need a 'is metro having technical difficulties' twitter account #wmata
Here's the RAC's report for this month, as much as I personally like to hear about aries.dcmetrohero.com: #wmata
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10 Dec
Pretty frustrating to see how underweighted on-time performance is in #WMATA's new grading scheme for its Metrobus routes. Yes, most all of this stuff is important, but suggesting they should all be weighted equally? No. wmata.com/about/board/me… Image
#WMATA staff presenter now talking about how on-time performance and service span are what riders care about the most, yet they're weighted as much as any other line item in this matrix. Why?
.@SimplySJG asks a great clarifying question on whether the components of the overall grades for each route are weighted equally. #WMATA staffer responds in the affirmative.
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20 Jul
#WMATA provably hasn't been providing enough weekday train and bus service for effective social distancing for weeks on Metrorail, and *months* on Metrobus. Image
Is strict social distancing required if everyone is wearing a mask? No, it's not, but the fact is that not everyone is wearing a mask, and #WMATA isn't enforcing their use or proactively making them available to riders, so...
"Metro is increasing service for Metrorail starting Aug. 16 and Metrobus starting Aug. 23...But so far, the number of buses and trains hasn’t caught up with demand. And it appears the bump coming next month won’t either," reports @JWPascale. wamu.org/story/20/07/20… #wmata
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9 Jun
"One of the things [#WMATA] has been looking at with our local communities is providing exclusive bus lanes, which allows us to move buses quicker."

In lieu of being able to run more buses due to labor concerns, this may be one of the agency's only options as traffic ramps up.
"Is it a matter of keeping service levels just ahead of demand as you ramp up?" asks @MartinDiCaro.

Unfortunately, #WMATA has been failing to safely meet Metrobus ridership demand for months, per the agency's own data:
@MartinDiCaro And to be clear, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that #WMATA's analysis, based on federal guidance, is irrelevant *assuming everyone has and wears a mask properly*, but that's seemingly not what the agency is focused on (yet) as it's still talking about social distancing.
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27 Mar
People are at crowded bus stops because they have places they must go and have no other practical choices for transportation. It doesn't have to be this way if our governments made sure these folks didn't need to travel and/or if #WMATA ran more buses.
What do we expect people who still need to go to work, or still need to get groceries, to do? What power do they in themselves have to forgo those obligations? Simply asking people to stay home isn't enough. Assume those on the street have good intentions until proven otherwise.
The individual blame game is convenient, because it doesn't require us to look at our present situation and think about the unresolved systemic issues that are actually causing much of the individual behavior we don't approve of, but that doesn't make it right.
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