Via WTOP’s Adam Tuss, looks like Metro General Manager John Catoe is worrying about more than just budget shortfalls. Catoe says he’s about to launch a new initiative to crack down on eating, drinking and chewing gum on Metro trains.

“I have noticed (myself) and have received calls and letters that there has been an increase,” says Metro General Manager John Catoe. “We are going to have a focused campaign from the standpoint of signs, from the standpoint of transit police notifying people and then citing people.”

Based on this photo from last April, captured on a camera phone by Flickr user iwantamonkey, Catoe would do well to remind his own employees of the rules before directing them to zealously enforce them for riders. Because we all remember how well imprisoning people for discretely chewing a candy bar in a station goes over with the general public.

Photo by iwantamonkey