Last night’s blogger roundtable with interim WMATA General Manager Richard Sarles was instructive for where the organization’s focus is right now: it’s all about “back to basics” for the interim GM, who is intent upon shoring up his priorities of Safety, Reliability and Fiscal Stability. The system has, in his view, suffered massively in the last few years, and as long as it took to get there, it will take that long to get it back. That starts, according to Sarles, with a return to the basics.
By Tom Bridge