The Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) has announced that it is “taking swift actions” to “combat the omicron variant.” What are those actions? It is cutting weekday bus service to Saturday schedules. Plus it is keeping rail service on limited schedules.
A train of derailment-prone 7000-series railcars.
How will these actions combat the omicron variant? They won’t. But WMATA doesn’t want to admit that, as a contender for the title of worst-managed transit agency in America, it purchased a bunch of rail cars that are duds and keep falling off the tracks. Because those railcars make up more than half the agency’s fleet, service alerts (at the time I am writing this) urge rail riders to “expect delays and consider MetroBus alternatives.” Continue reading
