Metro has escalated its sense of urgency in finding more revenue, trying to make the case to regional leaders that it can’t move forward alone.
The transit agency took the first step this month, saying it will increase enforcement of fare evasion to stanch a $40 million leak — a move that eased tensions with political leaders who wereSome of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs.
On Wednesday, Metrorail reached a pandemic-era high of more than 300,000 daily trips, still about 45 percent of the system’s average in October 2019.The increasing demand, combined with an inability to boost train capacity, has led to overcrowding Clarke said that while ending a train shortage is Metro’s top priority in the short term, the agency is also planning for a future that maintains pre-pandemic service levels. Regional leaders and riders have overwhelmingly indicated they don’t want Metro to make service cuts, Clarke said, while adding that Metro has about a year before looking at drastic scenarios to save money.
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