Transportation Issues

We Need METRO and METRO Needs Our Help - posted 4/5/11

The Washington Post recently reported “…any curtailment of midnight to 3 a.m. weekend [METRO rail] service was shelved…” (“A transit system showing its age”, METRO, 3/27/2011).  Then, the word from informed sources came in that the discussion of shortened weekend hours on METRO rail is back on the table.

The Washington Post recently reported that the threat of a $150 million cut to METRO funding by Congress is still alive and kicking (“Funding Cut Would Put Metro in ‘bad shape’”, METRO, 3/29/2011).

Until budget and maintenance issues are resolved we need to keep the conversation going about threats to METRO that are a threat to our businesses, our employees, our neighborhoods and our city at large. We need to keep late night hours and crucial Congressional funding intact.

Talk to your patrons and your employees and encourage them to get the message to decision makers that WE NEED METRO.
 
Send emails to the METRO Board and to Mayor Gray and your congressional representatives:
 
DC Mayor Vincent Gray
Senator Ben Cardin from Maryland
Senator Barbara Mikulski from Maryland
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia
Senator Jim Webb of Virginia
US Congressman Steny Hoyer from Maryland
US Congressman Chris Van Hollen from Maryland
US Congressman Jim Moran from Virginia
US Congressman Frank Wolf from Virginia
US Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia
 
Click here to see the public hearing calendar.
 
METRO needs us as much as we need it…show your support and maybe, just maybe, the METRO Board and Congress will come to understand and KEEP METRO RUNNING!

posted 2/11/11

Metro’s thinking of rolling back hours to 12 on weekends: astonishingly BAD idea. Victims: restaurants/employees/consumers/regional economy.

Read the RAMW press release
View the story in The Washington Examiner