Metro broke its all time annual ridership record, last week boarding over 205 million passengers since last July – a 5.3 percent increase from the previous year. Over the past week, Metro also recorded its seventh, eighth, and ninth highest ridership days ever. Officially, each of these records was attributed to baseball games. But The Examiner’s Steve Eldridge notes that those numbers don’t quite add up. Could it be that as D.C.’s population and gas prices both continue to rise, so will Metro ridership? Makes sense to us!

In other news, the future of the Dulles extension hangs in the balance, Metro is helping to fight crime, and pointed new adds target gas guzzlers.

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