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Falls Church on April 25, 2017 at 9:34 am

I don't like the idea of allowing jurisdictions to choose their own adventure. It goes down a path of regionalism that could lead to a game of chicken and a race to the bottom. Once you open up that Pandora's Box, VA could claim "we shouldn't be subsidizing maintenance of the aging infrastructure in DC/MD when our infrastructure is newer on average, has fewer miles of leaky tunnels and requires less maintenance?". It seems like this path could quickly spiral into a splintering of the coalition across jurisdictions that keeps Metro together.

It's fine for each jurisdiction to choose how they raise funds but I don't like the idea of jurisdictions choosing funding and service levels.

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