Mayor Muriel Bowser is criticizing Metro’s plans for addressing late night service, saying none of the options Metro presented meet the region’s needs.

Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld presented four scenarios to the D.C. Council at a breakfast meeting Tuesday.

Options include:

• Going back to 3 a.m. closing on weekends.
• Shifting maintenance hours, allowing for a 3 a.m. close on weekends, but also a later 9 a.m. Saturday opening and a 10:30 a.m. Sunday opening.
• Extend weekend hours until 2 a.m. and extending Sunday hours.
• Maintaining the status quo since 2016, which calls for a 1 a.m. close time on weekends.

Mayor Muriel Bowser says after SafeTrack and a $150 million annual investment of dedicated funding, the system should be in a better place.

“We didn’t go through all of that for a system that can’t support our workers, can’t support our businesses and can’t support our people,” Bowser said. “These proposals need some work.”

“I think we know when an agency doesn’t want to do something they present the worst possible scenario,” Bowser said. “So my challenge to Metro is to show how they are making their (maintenance operations) more efficient with the funding we gave them.”

The District is the only jurisdiction pushing for a 3 a.m. close on weekends. Metro board officials from Virginia, Maryland and the federal government say it would harm the system’s safety. Those representatives said they would block D.C.’s desire to extend hours if it came to a vote. The cost to operate later could also be a hurdle.

Wiedefeld says safety has to take precedent and that a return to late night service in 2020 is more realistic.

In 2016, Metro cut late night and weekend hours during SafeTrack and then voted to continue curtailing late night hours in exchange for more maintenance time. That hurt some workers and businesses that stay open late.

Metro says it can serve late night riders more cheaply and efficiently through a proposed partnership with ride-hailing services. The bus system also runs later than the Metrorail. Wiedefeld listed several subways across the world that close at 1 or 1:30 a.m. or earlier, including Paris, Hong Kong, and San Francisco.

But D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson disagreed.

“It seems to me that the public transit system in a major metropolitan area should be working long hours,” Mendelson said.

Metro’s board will vote on the operating hours on February 14.

This story was originally published on WAMU.