Last week, the Washington Post commemorated the 30th anniversary of a horrific Air Florida plane crash with an article about how that crash has led to huge improvements in airline safety. In response to that crash, airlines have improved deicing formulas and have strict rules about how quickly aircraft must take off after being deiced, and pilots have improved their responses to slow ascents.
The end of the article briefly mentions that, just a half hour after the plane crash, Washington’s MetroRail suffered its first fatal accident when a train of flimsy railcars “slammed into a concrete pillar near the Smithsonian station.” Unfortunately, neither this crash, nor a similar but nonfatal 2004 crash, nor the fatal 2009 crash, led Washington’s transit agency to reinforce the vehicles that were so easily subject to telescoping and collapsing. At best, the agency learned to require that new rail cars be better built.
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The lesson for commuters is, if you ride the Washington Metro, avoid the cars whose four-digit number starts with a 1. The lesson for policy makers is that a competitive environment is more likely to produce safety improvements than a subsidized monopoly.
