Will entertainment in Metro stations really bring in passengers who might otherwise drive? Are you serious? They must be using some potent paint thinner down at Metro headquarters and the fumes are getting to the management and the board if they think that this will be a draw.

I can hear the fantasy conversations going off in their head now: “Honey, they’re doing the Stephen Sondheim songbook at the Dupont Circle station this morning. Let’s take the train into work. In fact, let’s bring the kids, too. Sondheim sounds amazing in the train station; the way the horns and the strings echo off the concrete walls is magical. Remember last spring when we took the Green Line to hear the jazz quintet at Largo and the squealing of the brakes on the trains sounded just like Coltrane? Good times.”