DC Area Transit Zone

From the looks of it, it looks like the website/Twitter feed "FixWMATA" (originally "PoptDC") has decided to give up. As of the end of October, the text on "FixWMATA.com" was changed to the following.

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QuoteIf you want oil independence, reduced traffic congestion, and a better environment then you need effective, safe public mass transit. Ineffective, unsafe public mass transit systems only worsens these problems. WMATA is ineffective and unsafe.

Her final tweet, after unfollowing all that she followed, was as follows:

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QuoteI'm done with Metro. There is no "fixing" #wmata. WMATA is Humpty Dumpty. The only thing we can do is let them go bankrupt. Buy a car.

I know Ballston to Silver Spring is near one's Metroable limits, but I'm laughing at one just suddenly giving up. Yes, WMATA has issues that need examining, but I can't think of a single constructive thing that came out of that site. I claim a victory for sane discourse over shrill yelling and whining.

He who yells the most, gets the most attention (and mainly just that).

Quote from: 79MetroExtraMD on November 11, 2010, 02:29:45 PM
He who yells the most, gets the most attention (and mainly just that).

She was being a major drama queen in deciding to give it all up. For a commute like hers, a car is just swapping one set of problems (Metro) for another set of problems (traffic, DC driving and general, cost of parking). Then again, she did think that MARTA was better run than WMATA because their "trains didn't kill people" and the "fares are low".

Besides, it takes a lot more to force change than just moaning on a Twitter feed and getting numbers of hot cars to muckrake.