Any commuter who uses the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority has noticed a decline in service. The Post’s Lyndsey Layton details what WMATA is admitting to what is going wrong across the rail and bus system.

The Post writes that WMATA says that an increase in ridership has created a “growing dissatisfaction among riders, who say they can’t rely on the rail system to reach their destinations on time.”

So what else is new? What is the real problem? Crowding is one problem. Doors are jamming, WMATA reports. And what about those new train cars, the ones not manufactured by Breda of Italy? While we don’t doubt that this particular problem exists, we don’t doubt it happening:

Metro’s newest cars, those with the red, white and blue interiors that were manufactured by CAF Inc., have been hobbled by software problems since they began running in 2001. The latest problem is a tendency of the rail cars to overshoot the station platform and come to a stop anywhere from several feet to several hundred feet inside the tunnel past the station.