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actually, they still lost money, as the card costs them somewhere around $3...

$89 does not include parking nor does it include commuter rail....

Actually, if you are riding out to the exterior stations you are actually using Metro as a commuter rail, similar to BART, so please compare with those prices, not a regular subway. We have zones bec...

Blue bus fare is $1 except if you get on at Dupont Circle or Rosslyn station and show a SmartTrip card.. which it then is only 50cents (even without an actual transfer). The post above is accurate, Aa...

This doubles the cost of my commute! However, it'll be nice to be able to pay with pre-tax smartrip and to be able to use NextBus...

I think you may mean MPD, not DCPD...

You're correct, but GPS data is good for more than just bus prediction. They need it for route analysis and a host of other things. How can you fix the problem without knowing what the problem is. GPS...

Metro just needs to release real time GPS data, schedules, and route data and let developers go crazy with the data and develop their own algorithms, analysis, etc. Stop paying NextBus all that money...

WMATA does currently include services other than WMATA in its trip planner. If surrounding counties can get their data into the trip planner, then so can DDOT. (at the same time, most will uses Googl...

I'm no expert (obviously), but I don't think costs are amortized from the operating budget. There are lots of behind the scenes on buses too.. ever stand at 14&U with about 10 metro employees standin...

I believe the budget is concerned most with operating costs, as they've given up on anything else it seems....

Remember, per passenger mile. One of the greatest expenses to Metro is labor. A bus can hold, what, 80 people? A train.. 800? Both have one driver. Additionally, electric power is more stable price-wi...

source to my statement above. I may not be totally correct, been a while since I've read this article http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=1769...

Buses are actually a lot more expensive to operate per passenger mile when you account for fuel, labor, etc. .. not saying that bus should not be priced the same as rail. I agree with point #1, plus ...

don't really care about the name so much as the archives.. those would have been terrible to lose (even if they are archived in libraries, etc.)...