by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
A more eloquent version of this post appeared briefly yesterday, but let me just say again that if M.J. Rosenberg is unhappy with DC Metro, pro-transit residents in the rest of the country would be happy to take it off his hands. It's true that its trains and elevators don't have 100% reliability, and I've never experienced this system during the winter months, but I'd happily take a five-line subway system that worked 85% of the time over no rail system at all. Sure, it's not the New York MTA, but when the average American city has one tenth the population density of Manhattan, we're not going to be building the MTA any time soon.
—Signed, not Ezra Klein
