Pepco wants to charge you more so that it can become more reliable.

Most Metro riders are generally pretty happy with bus and rail service, though younger commuters are less likely to sing the praises of the transit system.

Photo by Hoffman. According to a Washington Post special report they are. For those who live in the Maryland suburbs this doesn’t quite come as a surprise, after sustained outages following the snowstorms in February and thunderstorms in July. However, the Washington Post article doesn’t even factor outages that were due to weather. Pepco customers experienced 70% more outages than big-city customers of other electric companies that took part in one 2009 survey. Once…