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Turns out the WMATA Riders’ Union has surpassed even WMATA itself in terms of dysfunction.

While the transit agency seems on the right path to turning around its troubled safety, financial, and public image issues thanks to an engaging new general manager, the riders union is down to just one leader, from an original team of five. And now Ashley Robbins is ready to be done too, tweeting that she’d like to turn everything over to someone with passion, energy, and a “temperate touch.”

Yes, @WMATARU has been dormant. Hard to bounce back from blows it’s faced. I wld love for fresh blood that everything can be turned over to.

— CCTgirl (@CCTgirl) April 21, 2016

Someone who loves region, has passion, energy, knows how to best address wmata’s needs with temperate touch can move forward with @WMATARU

— CCTgirl (@CCTgirl) April 21, 2016

That last one might refer to the clashes that marred the young group, which found itself apologizing for inactivity in March, just six months after its founding.

In an open letter, the then-two remaining leaders told their membership of more than 1,700 that “running an organization like this, it turns out, is not easy. Especially not when you’re understaffed and overworked—we’ve all had our day jobs and other commitments. But the solution to that is not for us to give up and disband.”

Chris Barnes, better known as the prolific tweeter @FixWMATA and one of the founding members of the group, had left the group several months prior over disagreements with Robbins’ leadership style and management of the finances. “This isn’t going to be the one as long as Ashley is leading [WMATARU], but there does need to be a riders union,” Barnes told DCist in March.

Graham Jenkins, then the group’s communications director, said that they were seeking additional members of the leadership team and were “entirely receptive to new people and new ideas.”

But in an interview with the Washington Post published yesterday, Jenkins said that Robbins had stopped responding while staying in control of the site and finances.

In a follow-up story, Robbins said family issues diverted her attention and that she’s planning to turn over the group to new leadership in a few weeks. “I would love to identify a group of people that can take this over and I can step down,” Robbins told the Post.