Comment on Metro plans for deep service cuts and layoffs without more federal aid

Metro plans for deep service cuts and layoffs without more federal aid

Come next summer, Metro may be operating at “bare bones” service levels with just two-thirds of its staff. The region’s transit agency said it will need to close well more than a dozen stations, implement a hiring freeze, lay off some of its workforce, dip into its capital funds and further reduce bus and rail service in the next fiscal year in order to offset a $495 million revenue shortfall, according to a budget proposal from Paul Wiedefeld, general manager and CEO of the Washington Metropolitan…

 

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