SafeTrack - I keep saying this - is not going to fix Metro. It's a speeded up track work program, compressing three years of already planned work on the track bed into about a year.

Many Saturday mornings, I take 495 from Fairfax to Maryland in the morning, and I'm astonished by the speed of many of the drivers. Even when I drive 70 mph, I'm being passed by people driving 80-90+ at times.

Some people make a separate argument about the red light cameras. They say it just changes the type of crash that's most likely to occur at an intersection.

Seems like people could behave themselves without making a calculation regarding how likely or unlikely they are to kill other people.

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.