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
5:10 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Who makes up these numbers, anyway? Up until now, WMATA told us that they needed $13.3 Billion of funds that we couldn't figure out how to supply - and now, they suddenly doubled the number to $26 Billion! The news media hesitated and took a breath, but I didn't hear a PEEP out of our so-called 'leaders', and the public seems to be sound asleep as usual. Now the news media is starting to talk up … more ›