Metro Funding

Washington’s Metro system is one of the only public transportation systems of its size that does not have a dedicated source of funding. Instead, each year the transit authority must ask D.C.-area jurisdictions for funding to operate the trains and buses. The Sierra Club advocates creating a dedicated, stable source of funding for Metro. This would allow more certainty and longer-range planning so that the system can keep up with rapidly growing ridership and maintenance of an aging system.

The Sierra Club has begun educating the public about this importance of dedicated funding, going door-to-door to talk with neighbors, and talking with people at community festivals and Metrorail stations in an effort to build public support for this important change.

• Funding Metro for a Change