The transit agency is likely to face two obvious but unappealing paths forward: Find financial help or cut service.
Chief among the proposed cuts: Eliminating weekend Metrorail service. The cost-cutting blueprint also proposed shuttering 19 of 91 stations, shortening weekday service by two hours, cutting Metrobus routes by half and creating longer waits for trains. It called on the transit agency to eliminate about 2,400 positions from Metro’s more than 12,000-person workforce through attrition and early retirements, as well as layoffs, if necessary.
Goldman said a sales tax could be a solution, but Metro would first have to convince all three jurisdictions to agree on it. “I think it’s still a little premature to really look at that crystal ball, which is challenging for all of us,” she said. “We are all watching a period of uncertainty in the way people are moving in our region and really across the country.”Developers along the nearly 11-mile Silver Line extension that is expected to open this year — further complicating Metro’s financial picture — say the shift to telework isn’t hurting demand for new office space along the corridor.
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