I thought people would have gotten a little more ticked off after Ron's excellent post showed Metro is missing its fleet reliability goals by a whopping third.
A third! Where's the commercial media on this? Come on guys!
Perhaps some perspective will show just how poorly Metro performs.
As of April:
New York subway's "mean distance between (railcar) failures": 168,209 miles; #wmata's 40, 275 miles
— Unsuck DC Metro (@unsuckdcmetro) September 13, 2012
March:
In March 2012, the New York City subway's newest cars went almost a million miles between failures: bit.ly/TMdFt3 #MTA #NYCT #WMATA
— Kurt Raschke (@kurtraschke) September 13, 2012
The mean distance between failures for #MTA #NYCT's newest cars (the R160s) is 13 times the MDBF of #WMATA's newest cars (the 6000 series)
— Kurt Raschke (@kurtraschke) September 13, 2012
Ugh
New York subway fare: $2.25; #wmata's average fare: between $2.75 and $3 yet New York's trains are 4 times more reliable.
— Unsuck DC Metro (@unsuckdcmetro) September 13, 2012
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