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May 13, 2015 | Sonya Burke

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Mikulski Expresses Frustration with WMATA in Letter to BOD Chair

U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski today sent a letter to Mortimer Downey, chair of the Board of Directors for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), with questions regarding Metro safety, financial and leadership following this week’s smoke incident. You can read the text from her letter in its entirety below: “I am very frustrated with […]

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February 25, 2015 | Sonya Burke

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Berliner, Floreen, Hucker Concerned about Metro Raising Fares and Reducing Service

The Montgomery County Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee sent a letter this week to Chair Mortimer Downey and the other members of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA, or Metro) Board of Directors “expressing our deep concern” about a staff proposal the board will consider on Feb. 26 to increase fares and […]

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