MTA Rigged Count Doesn’t Stand Examination
Adam Pagnucco has written a well researched, astute story examining the numbers the MTA has used to justify the cost of building the Red Line. The story details four critical assumptions behind the MTA’s sudden 28% jump in ridership numbers, which just happened to put the project under the cost threshold required to get federal funding.
You can read the complete story here, on the Maryland Politics Watch blog.