Metro gave iPads to six of its executives as a bonus this year and $2,000 each to two other top workers, The Washington Examiner has learned. The awards were given to members of the agency’s finance team in a year that the financially challenged transit system had to raise fares on riders twice as it grappled with dropping ridership and rising costs.

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