[Reno89519]

I had the same experience in the 80s as a grad student and up through 99, then from 2010-2014. Always clean, well maintained, very nice. I really do not think that is changing so much as that they are not doing track maintenance and so forth. Plus, they need to build more lines to get to more neighborhoods. I really can’t imagine that Uber and Lfyt are cutting into their ridership. More likely they simply want a bigger cut of the money, money that they used to get from cab companies.

[Ikeon]

I live near the cesspool of d.C. The last head of metro had been hiding a lack of maintenance, safety violations, poor performance by its maintenance staff and operators for years. the New head came in and within a month wanted to shut down the metro for several months just to do minimum needed safety repairs and wanted millions more in funds to fix the lines..