It’ll cost a minimum of $2.25 to ride Metrorail during peak hours and $2 for Metrobus, among other changes approved today.

People can share their thoughts online, at Metro stations, and at public events at WMTA’s headquarters.

But a final budget vote will happen this spring.

For at least two more weeks.

Photo by thisisbossi Metro’s board members heard testimony from well over 100 people Wednesday night as they prepare to vote today on how to close an additional $16 million of the transit agency’s 2010 budget gap. While opinions certainly differed on the best way to go about shoring up Metro’s finances, most of those who testified said they would prefer to pay a little bit more than see the system offer less service. The…

Photo by yonas1 Metro’s board today caved to mounting pressure to avoid massive Metrobus service cuts and voted to make only $2.5 million worth of cuts instead of $13.6 million, reports Lena Sun in the Post. In order to make up for a predicted budget shortfall, the board voted 5-1 to dip into the agency’s so-called rainy day fund, which currently holds $13.3 million. Instead of some 70 odd bus routes being eliminated, the…