Metro relaxed its policy on allowing water onto trains and buses on Friday, but don’t expect the leniency to last even as temperatures remain stifling.
Late Friday afternoon, the agency had said riders could drink water on Metro property despite the normal food and drink ban, with the reprieve running from Friday afternoon through Sunday. The agency had no reported problems with water balloon fights or the like.
But the agency doesn’t plan on allowing drinking of water bottles on Metro property this week, spokesman Dan Stessel told The Washington Examiner Monday morning.
It won’t do it again to unless the region has an “extraordinary streak of 100 plus days,” he said. Today’s misery, with forecasts calling for 90-plus degrees, doesn’t cut it.
Stessel said the agency can’t just allow water onto the system whenever it wants as it’s written into the legal codes of Virginia, Maryland and D.C. as part of the compact governing Metro. So basically, this past weekend’s water amnesty was the agency skirting the law.
