This is a perfect synopsis of why public transit in DC is so hard. Thanks for making my point. DC, again, doesn't have the tax base one would otherwise expect,

This is a perfect synopsis of why public transit in DC is so hard. Thanks for making my point. DC, again, doesn't have the tax base one would otherwise expect, for reasons outside its control. The people who control the money that would otherwise be paid to DC do not represent DC. They represent Virginia and Maryland, and also New York and California and Alaska. New York and California and Alaska voters don't particularly want the money to go to DC. They don't see DC as an actual city where real people live, they see it only as the resented center of a distant federal government, only populated by politicians and jackets. The fact that over a million "regular" people live in DC never enters the equation. Meanwhile there's nobody in a position of authority representing DC. So those "real people" DC residents don't get a say.