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The Daunting Cure for New York and DC Subway Woes
Fewer bureaucrats and self-dealing unions would help. But the fixes will ultimately require -- you guessed it -- huge sums of money.
All aboard!
Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThe other night I had dinner here in Washington with a New Yorker, one currently living not 10 blocks from the place where I grew up in Manhattan. As we parted -- me to drive home, her to take the metro back to her hotel -- she remarked how lucky I was to have moved to a city with such a nice subway system.
“Well,” I said, “ours is cleaner, but yours doesn’t catch fire so often.”