In a recently released proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Metro offered a range of drastic steps it could take in order to close the nearly $500 million budget gap it will confront as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Among the most austere measures under consideration is the shuttering of 19 different rail stations. “In the face of a historic budget shortfall,” the Metro document reads, “the Proposed FY2022 Budget preserves barebones service to sustain essential travel and to ensure the network is in place to serve regional recovery.”
Here, via WTOP, is the list of the 19 rail stations that are under consideration for closure:
“Arlington Cemetery
Archives
Cheverly
Clarendon
Cleveland Park
College Park
East Falls Church
Eisenhower Avenue
Federal Center SW
Federal Triangle
Greensboro
Grosvenor-Strathmore
Judiciary Square
McLean
Morgan Boulevard
Mt. Vernon Square
Smithsonian
Van Dorn Street
Virginia Square”
See the full WTOP story here.
Luke Mullins is a senior writer at Washingtonian magazine focusing on the people and institutions that control the city’s levers of power. He has written about the Koch Brothers’ attempt to take over The Cato Institute, David Gregory’s ouster as moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, the collapse of Washington’s Metro system, and the conflict that split apart the founders of Politico.
