Tea Party Protesters Protest D.C. Metro Service

[coastalrap]

Originally Posted by robbobobbo

Probably because the riders couldn't figure out the fare card system, and if you've got thousands of people in front of the fare card machines trying to figure out the instructions, you'll get a logjam pretty quickly.

I don't doubt that as part of it but apparently the ticket machines were acting up and going extremely slow.

[akorosdc]

They should have come Labor Day weekend, or do it again during Columbus Day weekend. Then they'd really have fun.

By the way, didn't Brady vote against increasing Metro's funding?? All I can say is, you get what you pay for...