The Washington Metro Transit Authority (WMATA) may provide the subway that Washington, D.C. deserves, but not the one it needs.

And lately, the daily commute in the nation’s capital has been worse than ever. Despite a last-minute system-wide closure in March for emergency safety work, rush hour commutes have been snarled by broken escalators, cars filled with smoke, delayed trains, and a train that was stuck under the Potomac River for half an hour one afternoon.

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