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<div>As someone who unfortunately rides Metro five days a week, it's true that the system is a mess, but it has more to do with a lack of a dedicated revenue source other than a fares, and constraints on workforce recruitment. Ridership has steadily declined
for a variety of reasons, amplifying the challenges with lack of infrastructure investment, staff training, etc. </div>
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<div>True, having multi-state governance doesn't help, but it is not the core issue and, with due respect, is not a corollary to giving the community a voice in ICANN budget matters.</div>
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<div>Finally, Metro expansion as contemplated has been completed. Metro did recently expand rather significantly beyond the original vision, i.e., the Silver Line, but alas, the addition is contributing to Metro problems in tangible ways, and is accelerating
the decline in ridership. <br>
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A co passenger on the Washington DC Metro remarked that Washington DC metro is far less efficient in making design improvements and in effecting upgrades. The top job was vacant for over 7 years before 2011, and vacant again since February 2015 with all leading
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agency that operates transit service in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Metropolitan_Area" title="Washington Metropolitan Area" class="" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Washington
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States Congress</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> as an</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact" title="Interstate compact" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">interstate
compact</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> between the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">District
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and the Commonwealth of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Virginia</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">Trijurisdictional Government Agency with several subcommittees that requires the Directors / Representatives of the Federal Government and two state governments to agree
on budget and other management decisions. It is perhaps due to this complications that the Metro, in comparison with other Pubic Transport Authorities in other US cities, is less efficient in its management, slow to make decisions and somewhat stagnant in
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