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WMATA's plans for Metro expansion are bad

Metro needs to address its original sin

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Sep 13, 2021
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Apologies for taking up a whole newsletter with a D.C. news story, but I figure we have a lot of D.C.-area readers here, and also this illustrates some general points about mass transit. Here goes.

Last week, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) announced four proposals for Metrorail expansion, all of which aim to address, among ot…

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