Metro Momentum Offers Expansive Plans for System's Future
The new strategic plan aims to take Metro through 2040.
A $26 billion strategic plan released by Metro last week gave a glimpse at the agency's vision — which includes several substantial recommendations like new Potomac River crossings and new metro stations — for taking the transit agency into 2025, 2040 and beyond. Called Metro Momentum, the plan acknowledged piecemeal fixes to an aging system are barely scraping the surface of the transit agency's needs and a growing DC region, whose population is expected grow 30 percent over the next three decades. "Our customers know that many trains, stations and buses are already crowded and we need to begin planning now to prevent that from worsening and prepare for more riders,” Metro General Manager and CEO Richard Sarles said in a press release. …
Bob Bruhns
4:58 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Back to WMATA's $26 Billion Dollar Surprise - who made up these numbers? Did WMATA do an actual cost estimate, or were these numbers simply made up and typed into a spreadsheet somewhere? If there was an actual cost estimate, who made it? Where can the public examine any estimates, and the basis for them? These numbers are staggering, and experience argues that they will now proceed to grow … more ›