This morning, the WMATA board of directors shelved a proposal to charge all riders entering and exiting the system at Union Station a five-cent surcharge. The extra nickel, which would have been added to all trips beginning and ending at Union Station, would have been used to pay for improvements to the station’s infrastructure and as a test run for similar surcharges at up to five additional stations in the District, Virginia and Maryland. According to Kytja Weir, the board decided that the policy needed to be discussed further before implementation. Union Station is the busiest Metro station in the system, handling over 32,000 riders per day on average.