Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train
Morning Roundup: Black Friday Edition
Devendra Banhart @ 9:30 Club
The Examiner reports that Metro will be seeking $5.2 million from the federal government in order to cover the costs of moving people around during Inauguration weekend. The story notes that Metrorail alone pulled in $3.5 million in fares during the four-day weekend, an absolutely astounding figure (and another excuse for us to trot out Metro's eye-popping official numbers). For anyone that's wished for Metro to operate 24 hours a day, it should be an interesting few months ahead -- as any federal money WMATA gets could be used for the eventual expenses that could arise from the wear and tear of the almost one full day of service experienced on January 20. Translation: if there's track and railcar malfunctions one after another come March, well, just blame the Inauguration.
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We went to the Macy's at 12th & G this morning for the Black Friday morning specials. There was a sh
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$3.5 million seems awfully low for that entire weekend. Monday plus Tuesday alone booked close to 2 million people, that's less that $1/trip....the math is not right on this or metro's original ridership numbers are wrong.
So for the 4 days that makes an average Metrorail fare of $.85!? Yea...something is off here, especially when the average fare is somewhere around $2.
I took two buses and one Metro ride on Inaug day, and didn't pay a cent. There were so many people on the Metro they just waved us through the gates. And the buses weren't collecting fares. So that could explain some of the low income take, Mainland.
Bully for Metro for trying to get the money from the govt. It sure is frick is not fair to expect the residents of metro DC to pick up the costs for all those tourists with higher fares for us.