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We can spout a lifetime of words and they will echo and fade, and history will not remember a single one. I don’t like it either but when power is so entrenched, so impossibly distant, blood becomes the only possible currency of change.”
The Strength of the Few
James Islington
Clarke is right to note that transit systems carry significant costs, and fare revenue is part of the current funding model. But how much, realistically, does WMATA anticipate recouping with this approach versus simply discouraging rides? Every hour spent by staff working on this campaign is an hour that could be analyzing and socializing longer-term solutions, like road pricing, which will soon fill a similar gap for the MTA in NYC.
Apples to Hand Grenades: Why Transit Fare Evasion Is an Untimely Distraction – Greater Greater Washington
Caitlin Rogger
Never in my life had I felt myself so near that porous line where my own body was done with and the roots and the stems and the flowers began.
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