The Best Transit Manager in the Nation!
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courtesy of ‘Karon’
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has named Metro’s own John Catoe as the best public transportation manager of 2009. APTA has credited Catoe for managing Metro well during Inauguration craziness, as well as improving safety system-wide in the wake of several Metro-related pedestrian fatalities. Metro has started calling itself “The Best Ride in the Nation”, and with this honor, it doesn’t seem so off-base.
What do you think? Has your commute gotten significantly better since January 2007, when Catoe began at Metro?
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6 Responses to “The Best Transit Manager in the Nation!”
May 28th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Safety and Inauguration aside, what about the chronic $21M+ gap in the budget that WMATA continues to scramble to fill, with innovative ideas such as food vendors at stations – but retaining the ‘no food on Metro’ rule, or using stimulus bailout money specifically earmarked for shovel-in projects to be a band-aid? While he may certainly deserve such an award, it’s only putting a frilly doily on the fiscal mismanagement pig and calling it a beauty queen.
Wow, apparently I needed to get that out…
May 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Anyone who rode the blue line this morning (like I did) can answer a big red “NO” to the last line’s question. The delays seem to be just as bad as ever, it still seems as though half of the stations have at least one escalator out of service at any given time… I guess I’m not seeing a big differance at all- and that would be fine, if not for the fact that the status quo wasn’t exactly a good thing.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:34 am
You guys expect too much. Get out and ride other transit systems around the nation. They suck a fat one. People get spoiled by Metro and then trash it. It sounds like kids who have a great mom that’s a little flakey and say “I hate you mom!!”
May 29th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Honestly, I far prefer the SF transit system, even though it’s a bit schizo between BART and MUNI.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
The Best Metro Manager is Dan Tangherlini – and I still miss him
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:01 am
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