It's Metro board time.
The safety message is about deers.
Metro has had 23 deer strikes since July, which is an increase over the usual.
Those deer strikes cause usually an 11-minute delay and cause damage to traincars.
The safety message is about deers.
Metro has had 23 deer strikes since July, which is an increase over the usual.
Those deer strikes cause usually an 11-minute delay and cause damage to traincars.
.@lohplaces has been sworn into the WMATA board as a primary member from D.C.
NEW: Metro GM Paul Wiedefeld says Metro is submitting its plan to fix the 7000-series trains TODAY.
Wiedefeld says he's unsure how long a review of the plan will take. Safety will determine the date, he says.
Now moving to the budget presentation. I won't tweet the details since you can read @colleengrablick's story from Monday. Will tweet the board response.
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WMSC spokesperson @amaxsmith says the commission “will be reviewing (Metro’s plan) expeditiously just as we have been extremely responsive to any Metro requests for discussions to this point.”
Clarification: Metro is submitting a testing plan to gather data to the Metrorail Safety Commission. They'll then need to submit another plan after that.
One thing that I missed in our first pass: the $5 bonus when you buy $25 in fares and the discounted 7-day pass was proposed only for the first six months of the budget (July 2022 to the end of 2022). Was in a footnote, but not in the text of the budget. 
Fed rep Sarah Kline asks about $20M set aside for equity initiatives. What will that money go toward?
Metro: For now it's a placeholder, but could go toward potential service imporvements.
Metro: For now it's a placeholder, but could go toward potential service imporvements.
Kline said some of the discounts will skew toward people who have the money to pay $25 all at once.
Kline said she would like to see fare capping, basically, pay as you go and hitting discounts as you use the system a certain amount. But Metro doesn't have that capability yet.
Kline said she would like to see fare capping, basically, pay as you go and hitting discounts as you use the system a certain amount. But Metro doesn't have that capability yet.
Letourneau says the $20M equity fund would go toward providing equitable service to offset the opening of Silver Line Phase II.
Title VI mandates equity when any new service goes in place. transit.dot.gov/regulations-an…
Title VI mandates equity when any new service goes in place. transit.dot.gov/regulations-an…
.@lohplaces says fare discounts are what people want now because of 7000-series issues, not next year in form of a pass.
"We need to think bigger about what will get people on Metro and it's more than just cost."
"We need to think bigger about what will get people on Metro and it's more than just cost."
Metro board is wrapped.
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