Since it is a hybrid, it can’t be considered purely a subway or a commuter rail system. But the FTA doesn’t consider the Washington Metro any different (as a mode) from the Boston T or the New York City Subway. Metro is a modern heavy rail system, while Boston and New York have pre-auto age heavy rail systems.The subway systems typically shuttle millions of people around the US cities, with New York’s MTA, the country’s largest, conveying 5.5 million people around New York every day in 2019.
37. DEATHROW__DC • 2 yr. ago. Metro, in general, suffered a major fall in ridership, especially off peak ridership, during the 2010s that it never really recovered from before COVID struck. Metro was a consistent nightmare for years due to its ever increasing state of disrepair and the resulting SafeTrack Era.
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