All Hail the ‘Death Spiral’

By Jim Swift
Published October 5, 2015 7:29pm ET
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All Hail the ‘Death Spiral’
Writing in the Washingtonian, Benjamin Freed sounds the alarm: Metro’s Ridership Is Still Falling, and Fare Hikes Might Be the Only Way to Keep Its Revenue Up. The alarm, of course, is for public transportation advocates who should rightly be worried about a total failure of the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority, or WMATA. Alas, Freed […]

Writing in the Washingtonian, Benjamin Freed sounds the alarm: Metro’s Ridership Is Still Falling, and Fare Hikes Might Be the Only Way to Keep Its Revenue Up.

The alarm, of course, is for public transportation advocates who should rightly be worried about a total failure of the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority, or WMATA. Alas, Freed notes this was predicted by a former WMATA chief a little over a decade ago:

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