The many workers and administrators who make our public transportation systems work as well as they do for so much of the time deserve our praise and support. Held back by tight and shrinking budgets, frequently placed in poor and dangerous working conditions, and forced by the nature of their business to work with aged and faulty systems at the same time that those systems are heavily used, these good people are asked to do the impossible and to take the heat when expectations are not met. This certainly goes for the nation’s second-busiest system, in Washington, DC where I live. But:
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