{"id":9318,"date":"2016-05-03T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2016-05-03T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:18:15","slug":"washington-subway-metros-fiery-40th-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/03\/washington-subway-metros-fiery-40th-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Subway: Metro&#8217;s Fiery 40th Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9319\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/metro-toles-cartoon-GREAT-40TH-BIRTHDAY-tt160501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9319\" class=\"wp-image-9319\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/metro-toles-cartoon-GREAT-40TH-BIRTHDAY-tt160501.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Toles Editorial Cartoon\" width=\"575\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/metro-toles-cartoon-GREAT-40TH-BIRTHDAY-tt160501.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/metro-toles-cartoon-GREAT-40TH-BIRTHDAY-tt160501-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Toles Editorial Cartoon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One benefit of the recent subway shutdown in Washington is that the system did not kill anybody that day.\u00a0 The New York Times recently noted how Metro&#8217;s construction 40 years ago was part of a &#8220;grand vision of American liberalism.&#8221;\u00a0 But the system only cares about paying its own employees and bureaucrats &#8211; to hell with the customers. The National <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/ntsb-report-on-fatal-2015-metro-smoke-incident-is-said-to-criticize-metro-first-responders-and-others\/2016\/05\/02\/a414f3d2-107e-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_metrontsb-635a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Transportation Safety Board issued a damning report today\u00a0<\/a> &#8211; the chairman of that board condemned Metro for having a &#8220;severe learning disability&#8221; regarding safety.\u00a0\u00a0 Metro&#8217;s new general manager actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/2016\/03\/30\/fba8ae0a-f688-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html\">proposed shutting down some of the subway&#8217;s lines for six months <\/a>in order to allow repairs &#8212; at the same time he rattled his tin cup for more government handouts.\u00a0\u00a0 Metro&#8217;s heavy reliance on subsidies is the key to its contempt for customers.\u00a0 But drawing that simply conclusion is still too great a leap for many Washingtonians.\u00a0 I was riding the subway a couple Sundays ago and overheard a liberal couple from Virginia explaining to a DC native that the real problem was &#8220;the lack of a dedicated funding source&#8221; for Metro.\u00a0 No matter how many handouts the system receives or how incompetently it behaves, more federal funding\u00a0 is still touted as a panacea.<\/p>\n<p>The system has strong unions and bad management\u00a0 &#8211; a combination which assures that work simply doesn&#8217;t get done.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wtmedia\/series.html\">Washington Times had an excellent series debunking <\/a>the system a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It is morbidly amusing to see federal employees bearing some of the cost of the boundless incompetence of this government subway system.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Metro&#8217;s screw-ups are dragging down the entire D.C. area.<\/p>\n<p>Another hat tip to Tom Toles for his great cartoons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/toles-metro-subway-cartoon-4-04-2016-GREAT-tt160404.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9320\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/toles-metro-subway-cartoon-4-04-2016-GREAT-tt160404.gif\" alt=\"toles metro subway cartoon 4 04 2016 GREAT! tt160404\" width=\"750\" height=\"654\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One benefit of the recent subway shutdown in Washington is that the system did not kill anybody that day.\u00a0 The New York Times recently noted how Metro&#8217;s construction 40 years ago was part of a &#8220;grand vision of American liberalism.&#8221;\u00a0 But the system only cares about paying its own employees and bureaucrats &#8211; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[840,838,508,839,507,434],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal","tag-incompetence","tag-metro","tag-reckless","tag-subway","tag-washington"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Washington Subway: Metro&#039;s Fiery 40th Birthday Party - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Washington&#039;s subway is the epitome of govt. incompetence. 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