it doesn’t help that the Metro, the subway system, is an atrocity with breakdowns, offloading for no reason, etc. which makes public transportation virtually unusable.
Affirmative action and minority set asides are the rule for all Metro contracts.
I know someone whose small company wanted to bid on Metro escalator repair. He was told not to bother.
Notice how Metro escalators are continually broken and never fixed correctly.
Sometimes on my mile-and-a-half commute I hit both read lights.