So the latest this week from the crumbling infrastructure of the DC Metro train system, not withstanding the mess of Operation SafeTrack.
While riding this morning, a large panel inside the train abruptly and widely swings open and smashes against the fabricated white and plastic wall adjacent to the seats.
It made a loud bang and initially everyone on the train looked up with the deer in the headlights stare apparently thinking it was a gunshot on the train or something.
Luckily, no one was in the 2 seats where the panel swung open like that, because their would've been some physical damage done to somebody there.
The age and decrepitness of the train obvious from the incident and also looking at what's behind door #1!
What is amazing is that this is the Capital of the United States, one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations on Earth.
We spend lavishly abroad and domestically on wasteful pork barrel politics, broken programs, and even money that goes completely unaccounted for (can anyone say pass a financial audit).
Yet, we cannot provide a modern, clean, safe, and functional metro transportation system servicing the capital of our country or for that matter educate our young people properly or feed the hungry and shelter the homeless within our own borders.
There is a lot broken here and Metro is just the tip of the leadership iceberg unbecoming who we are and what our potential for this world is. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
DC Metro Is In Shambles