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MLD on April 25, 2017 at 10:05 am
It's dangerous to just pull numbers out and compare them that way. If they contracted out certain types of routes (e.g. more suburban, faster-running routes) then you would see a per-mile difference between contracted and non-contracted service even if there were no actual savings. Silly for WMATA to make that comparison when they (correctly) price out bus service by platform/service HOUR in their budget. One mile of bus service doesn't cost the same everywhere. One hour of bus service is far more comparable.

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