When Max Scherzer finishes his career pitching, maybe he can buy the DC Metro and run it efficiently.
Scherzer gets paid to throw baseballs, not to analyze public policy, so give him a pass for failing to understand that concepts like “supply” and “demand” don’t mean a whole lot to government bureacracies like the WMTA.
And the DC metro is the worst kind of bureaucracy. It’s a toxic mix of unaccountable staff, broken escalators, burning tracks and misplaced spending priorities. All the problems are driving people away from using the subway, a trend the WMTA says they are trying to reverse.
That might seem like a reason to stay open an hour later on Thursday night for the chance to capture tens of thousands of potential riders leaving Nationals Park. Nope.
Scherzer should save up. The way the system is declining, he’ll be able to buy it for a season’s salary when he retires.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2ea2U0P
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